92 EX VIRIBUS VIVIMUS. 



is in the variety of language — a part of the in- 

 tellectual development — that characters of far greater 

 constancy and value are found. ^ Whilst the shape of 

 the skull, the colour and such structural attributes, 

 having assumed a certain state in a race, may rapidly 

 change in a few generations to a totally different 

 state,^ language remains comparatively constant. The 

 Circassians, who embody the ideal of beauty of the 

 Western Europeans, are Mongolidse in language ; 

 that is, are more closely related in descent to the 

 Chinese and Siamese than to us. The Turk in 

 Europe is acquiring European characteristics, losing 

 his rounded form of head ; whilst the Jew and the 

 Ashantee are of nearer relationship to one another than 

 either is to any of the other races named. Compare 

 an English Jew of pure race with an African savage, 

 and the transient character of structural character 

 in man, such as is not brain structure, will be re- 

 cognised. 



It is needless to mention further the varied colour 

 of the hair and physiognomy of Europeans ; all such 

 and many similar facts tend to shew the complete 

 subordination of other to brain character. Hence 



' Too great reliance must not be placed on language ; for an invading 

 race will in some cases communicate its language to the conquered, or, 

 in other cases, adopt the language of the invaded country. 



^ The fact that the Jevrish physiognomy has been traced in some 

 African races, must be mentioned on the other side, and the certainly 

 long persistence of the type, of hair in the two great groups of smooth- 

 and curly-haired races. 



