00 THE INFLUENCE OP CLIMATE. 



families established in Brazil, and who have carefully avoided 

 foreign marriages, have lost nothing, it is said, of their original 

 characteristics.* The Icelanders have not become Laplanders 

 in their own island, and they have now been established there 

 eight hundred years; they are as fair and German-looking as 

 at first, f The Dutch have prospered at the Cape under the 

 name of Boers. They say that at Cochin and Malabar there 

 exists a Jewish tribe, which has been established there for a 

 long time, and which traces back its origin to the captivity; 

 it has remained pure,J and as similar to the inhabitants of the 

 Jewish quarter at Cairo, as to the Jews in Leonardo de Vinci's 

 Last Supper, and in the pictures of the Flemish school. 



Indeed, among ourselves in Europe, have not the Irish pre- 

 served, under their foggy and cold sky, that southern nature 

 which is revealed in their taste for certain arts, their small 

 height, their black hair, the vivacity of the women, and the 

 indolence of the men ? Now, here is another order of facts, 

 man is not altered by emigration. Perhaps these facts are not 

 very conclusive to all people, either on account of the difficulty 

 of observation, or the short period which they embrace. They 

 must be taken just as science offers them to us, and we must 

 give our attention solely to reckoning the conclusion from the 

 value of the premises. 



We now arrive at the second term of the law which we have 

 laid down, that man, transported to another country, even- 

 tually disappears. The theory which we thus form is of con- 

 siderable importance. It has even received a particular name, 

 it has been called the Theory of the non-Cosmopolitanism of 

 Man. It is at the present day defended in France by Dr. 

 Boudin, with as much energy as talent. In this matter, facts 

 are abundant enough, and they at once take a considerable 



Reunion, who descend from a few couples only, and yet have known how to 

 preserve their purity of blood" (An Inquiry into Consanguineous Marriages 

 and Pure Races, Dr. E. Dally ; transl. by H. J. C. Beavan, Anthrop. Review, 

 p. 97, 1864. EDITOR.] 



* White, Account of the regular Gradation of Man, p. 112. Morton, Crania 

 Americana, Introduction. Prince de Wied, Voyage au Bresil, vol. ii, p. 310. 

 Bory de St. Vincent, Essai Zoologique sur le genre huniain, vol. ii, p. 20. 



f Desmoulins, Histoire Naturelle des races humaines, p. 162. Indigenous 

 Races of the Earth, p. 585. 



t White, Account of the regular Gradation of Man, p. 104. 



