VI CONTENTS. 



SECTION V. 



ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF MANKIND. 



1. Anatomical View. Division of the section into three parts ; Natural 



division according to external variations ; D'Omalius D'Halloy's 

 basis of division ; Blumenbach's cranial division ; Lacepede and 

 DumeriTs addition; Cuvier's three types; Pickering, Prichard, 

 Latham, Bory, Desmoulins, Agassiz, Nott and Gliddon on Classi- 

 fication ; Hombron on Australian and Negro type ; Vater, Morton, 

 and Tschudi ; Retzius' system of Craniology ; Zeune's cranial 

 types ; Disagreement of Authors on Classification ; Difficulties of 

 the Cranial Classification exposed ; Value of Phrenology ; Quetelet's 

 measurements of the skeleton ; Reference Table of measurements 

 of various parts of the human frame .... 230 



2. Linguistic View. Importance of Philological investigations ; Insuffi- 



ciency of the comparison of vocabularies ; Importance of gram- 

 matical structure in the transmission of a Language ; Analysis of 

 a sentence in illustration ; The structure of a perfect Language ; 

 American Languages Polysynthetic ; Agglutinated Languages of 

 Asia ; Inflected Languages ; Monosyllabic and Polysynthetic Lan- 

 guages compared ; Change in Structure of a Language ; Original 

 Unity of Language improbable ; View of Humboldt ; Max Muller's 

 theory ; Balbi's Summary of the Languages of the Earth ; Arbi- 

 trary division ; Crawford on the Malay Languages ; Relative 

 value of the Physical and Philological investigations in determining 

 the Unity or Plurality of Origin; Positive principles of Philology and 

 negative principles of Naturalists ; Objections to Nott and Grliddon ; 

 Philology alone inadequate for the determination of Race; Loss 

 of Languages in American Races ; Change of Language : instances 

 cited ; Absorption of small by greater Nations ; Romans, Arabian, 

 Normans, Longobards, Greeks, etc.; Parallelism between loss of 

 Language and the Extinction of a People; Preservation of Lan- 

 guages . ...... 238 



3. Historical View. Reason given for this division; History founded on 



traditions ; Tradition of the Noachian Deluge ; Analogies between 

 Mongolian and American Peoples ; Delafield, Humboldt, Squier 

 hereon ; Tradition of destruction of the Earth ; Zodiacal signs of 

 the old and new worlds ; Conformity of Customs in Nations widely 

 separated ; Examples cited ; Conformities of Customs no basis for 

 Classification 254 



