84 Actual Races in History. 



These documentary records are endorsed, at every 

 principal chapter and page, by universal traditions, 

 by the science of linguistics, and by all the re- 

 sources of science which the subject admits of : 

 they concur to the effect that Noe was, and Assur, 

 and Nimrod, and Misraim, and Adam, and then — 

 what ? Not the subject of a prehistoric anthropol- 

 ogy, that is certain. For there was no man at all 

 then; and so there is no science about him, either 

 historic or prehistoric. History brings us back to 

 a first man; and, before him, anthropology, or the 

 science of man's life upon earth, has not begun to 

 be. 



97. But when it has begun to be, when as a 

 science of to-day it finds where its subject, man, 

 began to exist, it traces with diligence the his- 

 tory of our species, as we left the cradle-land and 

 wandered through many vicissitupes, even to the 

 division of races. It contemplates us with color 

 changed, face and form and brain altered, every- 

 thing gone from its original style and feature, ex- 

 cept that specific sum of characters by which a 

 man is a man all the world over. In many lands 

 our wanderers have stood. Now, when every shore 

 is explored, no single one is found without the 

 signs of our labors. The long tale is told of liberty 

 used and of liberty abused. Traditions coming 

 down to us by many an avenue, like an old melody 

 never lost, sing of a better time that was, and of a 

 supernatural state which was and which ceased to 



