3G0 NATURAL HISTORY OP 



tifully shaped, and the feet and toes more delicate, and more 

 obliquely arranged. Hia mo ive of pur- 



ceful ; the poise of hia head places the counte- 

 nance vertically to the horizon.* The should^ mple, 

 the chest broad, the ribs linn, and the loins well turned ; the 

 thighs, and, in particular, the calves of the legs, symmetrical; 

 the whole frame constructed for the endurance of every kind of 

 toil, being protected in some measure with a partial growth of 

 hair, which is scarcely traceahle in the other types excepting 

 on the chest. Thus he is constructed with physical powers 

 equal to his intellectual organization, fitted to sustain proti 

 thought, — continuous attention, alike excited hy an activity 

 of disposition stimulating his brain, which is larger and more 

 fully developed in the anterior portion than in any other form 

 of -Man. In the mere animal senses of sight, hearing, feeling, 

 smell, and tasting, the social position of civilized nations may 

 render them, in part, less quick, because they are less called 

 into activity; but the Kaufir mountaineer of Hindu-Koosh, and 

 the Arab wanderer, are, no doubt, equal, if not superior, to the 

 acutest perception of Negro, American, or any other wild race 

 in the world. Again, the Caucasian form of Man combines, 

 above the rest, strength of limb with activity of motion, 

 enabling it to endure the greatest vicissitudes of temperature 

 in all climates, — to emigrate, colonize, and multiply in them, 



* A weight being placed on the head, such as when a Dutch milk-maid 

 skates to market, the heavy pail is so poised upon a kind of pad, that it 

 bears equally on the dome of the cranium ; so, also, is water carried by 

 the abnormal Egyptian peasantry. In both, the weight rests on the per- 

 pendicular axis of the body, through the centre of the skull ; whereas, in 

 the Negro, weight on the head is always poised nearer the forehead, and, 

 consequently, the chin is elevated. With the Mongolian and American, 

 the strain appears to be downward, the muscles of the neck being rigid. 

 Weight is carried, not on the shoulders, like a Caucasian, nor on the 

 head, like the woolly-haired races, but by a strap pres.-ing against the 

 forehead and passing to the back. True Caucasians trust to the shoulders 

 and loins. 





