8 INTRODUCTION. 



or Mongolian stocks.* He states conclusively, however, that his investi- 

 gations have shown that the classificatory system of consanguinity among 

 the Eskimos differs radically from that of the Granowanian, Turanian, and 

 Maylayan. 



"It appears to remove any remaining doubt with respect to the non-connection of 

 the Eskimo with each and all of the families." 



In regard to the Ganowanian family in itself considered, Mr. Morgan's 

 work is replete with solid information; and though he may not have given 

 that attention which seems to be demanded to the indication of some 

 influence upon the family outside of itself, he has probably brought forward 

 the strongest arguments yet deduced to prove the North Americans, exclu- 

 sive of the Eskimo, of one stock, though he freely admits that there are 

 some doubtful points yet to be made clear. The argument in favor of the 

 identity of the Village Indians of New Mexico and Arizona with the Roving 

 Indians of the North, inasmuch as it would prove the culture of the former 

 to be simply one of advance of a portion of the same original family, not 

 accompanied with any radical change of domestic institutions,! will be, 

 indeed, if accepted, the clearing away of many theories. 



From the gradual development of the Village Indians from a state cor- 

 responding to the communal conditions of other branches of the family, Mr. 

 Morgan sees no difficulty in accounting for the culture of Central America, 

 and in considering the "palace" at Palenque as a communal house of the 

 same character as the Pueblo of Zuili, and simply a further development of 

 the communal house of the Iroquois. 



It would not be doing justice to Mr. Morgan, even in this mere glance 

 at his valuable work, to omit mention of the very important influence which 

 he attributes to the valley of the Columbia, the natural advantages of 

 which he considers gave "a permanent and controlling influence over all 

 other parts of North America," and, he thinks, "it can be shown over South 

 America as well. Wherever the Indian family commenced its spread it 

 would sooner or later come in possession of this region ; and from that time 

 onward it would become the seed land of the family, and the initial point 

 of successive streams of migration to all parts of the continent. The abun- 



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