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religion and social condition ; in a word, the same nature. Adding 

 together the accumulated testimony from anatomy, physiology, and 

 psychology, he Bays, " We are entitled to draw confidently the con- 

 clusion that all human races are of one species and one family." 



Dr. Latham* separates the human species into three primary 

 divisions, the Moncolid-E, Atlantih.v., and .1 \ri 1 jp.v. : — the Mon- 

 gol ids inhabiting Asia, Polynesia and America ; their languages 

 aptoticf and agglutinate ; their influence on the history of the world 

 material rather than moral; — the Atlantidae inhabiting Africa; 

 their lanrruaircs with an agglutinate, rarely an amalgamate, in- 

 flexion ; their influence on the history of the world inconsiderable ; 

 — the Japetidse inhabiting Europe; their languages with amalga- 

 mate inflections, or else anaptotic.| rarely ai/rrlutiriate, never aptotic ; 

 their influence on the history of the world greater than either of the 

 others, moral as well as material. 



The MONGOLIDJE lie divides into, 



A. — The Altaic Mongolidae. 



B. — The Dioscuriau Mongolia's. 



C. — The Oceanic Mongolidae. 



D. — The Hyperborean Mongolidae. 



E. — The Peninsular Mongolidae. 



F. — The American Mongolids. 



G. — The Indian Mongolida?. 



A. — The Altaic Mongolidce, he divides into the Seriform and the 

 Turanian stock. 



1. The Seriform stock, of which the chief divisions are the 

 Chinese, the Tihetans, the Assamese, the Siamese, the Kambojians, 

 the Burmese, the Mo u, and numerous unplaced tribes ; their lan- 

 guages are generally monosyllabic and aptotic. The Chinese 

 language is remarkable, from the fact that written signs represent 

 whole words, instead of syllables or single articulate sounds. In 

 the wild Seriform tribes we notice erratic agriculture, an exceptional 

 form of human industry, contrasting strongly with the method of 

 cultivating the soil in China. 



The Chinese civilization he considers the measure of moral 

 development of the monosyllabic nations ; while allowing to the 

 Chinese several of the most important arts and discoveries of 



* The Natural History of the Varieties of Man, by Robert Gordon 

 Latham, M. D., F. R. S. 8vo. London, 1850. 



t Without cases. t Falling back from inflexion. 



