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table, the least quantity of brain, and the Mongol less than 

 the American. One might feel inclined to set aside the first 

 objection, as Huschke has done, 1 namely, that the cranial capa- 

 city of the Hindoo, which according to him only contains 27 

 ounces of brain, is to that of the European only =2:3. 

 This he explains from the circumstance that the Hindoo, on the 

 average, is only 4 feet high, whilst the European is 6 feet, and 

 that therefore the brain is proportional to the size of the body. 

 This explanation is unsatisfactory, for the Hindoo is, on the 

 average, 5 feet 2 inches high ; 2 nor is it all applicable to the 

 Malay, who is not on the average smaller than the Mongol. 

 Another difficulty is, that the old Egyptians possessed, next 

 to the Hindoos, the smallest skulls of all Caucasian races 

 (Huschke). That some American nations have uncommonly 

 large heads, was proved by the fact, that the hats fabricated in 

 Paris for the natives of Canada and New Orleans during the war 

 of liberation, were all too small for them. The inhabitants of 

 Tierra del Fuego, the Esquimaux, and the natives of Yan Die- 

 men's Land, have all, with a compact structure, uncommonly 

 large heads, which seems to be the case with all inhabitants of 

 cold regions, Caucasians included, in comparison with the in- 

 habitants of warmer climates. 3 Virey 4 observes, that the 

 Russian possesses a more capacious skull than the Swede ; the 

 Kalmuck and Tartar; a larger cranium than the civilized Euro- 

 pean; but the Laplander is particularly distinguished by a 

 greatly developed cranial structure. Desmoulins has also 

 pointed out the disproportion existing in the Mongol, and 

 especially in the so-called Hyperborean race, between the size 

 of the head and mental qualification. Finally, instances are 

 not wanting which prove that the same or similar intellectual 

 and moral dispositions coexist with different cranial formations ; 

 and vice versd, different dispositions with the same or similar 

 cranial shape and capacity. We see one and the same people, 

 in the course of its history, proceed from barbarism to civiliza- 



1 Page 49. 



2 Lassen, " Ind. Alterthumskunde," i, p. 402. 



3 Parchappe, loc cit., p. 51. 



4 " Hist. nat. du genre humain," i, p. G6, 1834. 



