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immutable, and repressive of progress. Though early in pos- 

 session of the mariner's compass, and (particularly the Japan- 

 ese) long compelled to a familiarity with the sea, none of the 

 beardless tribes ever became true navigators, or reasoning ship- 

 builders. 



The typical nations have monosyllabic languages, depending 

 greatly upon phonetic expression, and their letters are pictorial 

 symbols, immensely diversified ; hence their so-called poetical 

 compositions cannot be highly figurative, or reach beyond 

 mediocrity, and their learning is greatly restricted by the 

 cumbrousness of its elements. Finally, what is known of 

 social advancement, of inductive reasoning, or of mathematical 

 acquirement, is derived from foreign sources, or is the work of 

 interumons with the various Caucasian races, Yuehi, Kin-to- 

 Moey, Hindo-Chinese, and others, scattered through every part 

 of the organized nations of the beardless stock. 



It appears that the present Mongolic tribes were long 

 ignorant of the real use of the Horse; while, in the arctic 

 regions, the white woolly race of the Jakoutsk was not deemed 

 serviceable, except for food. 



From the Subaltaic Yuchi, who were the first rulers, they 

 no doubt learnt the art, and became conquerors, by the sole 

 acquisition which changes the relations of every people on 

 earth accessible to the animal.* 



This was certainly subsequent to the oldest Hyperborean 

 invasion of China ; for, even to this day, that immense region 

 produces very inferior animals, excepting those bred by the 

 Caucasian Miao-tze mountaineers. 



Yet, under favorable circumstances, and no doubt with 

 some aid from the Caucasian elements spread through the 

 masses, they have achieved an homogeneous civilization, as 

 early, perhaps earlier, than any people of the south and west; 



* The Mongolic nations eat horse-flesh. Wild horse-meat, butchered 

 for the market, is still sold daily in many parts of China. 



