2 ANTHROPOLOGY. 
diet, as well as to a mixture of the two, &c. But by far the most important 
characters are to be found in those mental endowments which distinguish 
him so eminently from the brute. 
2. VARIETIES OF MANKIND. 
It is not our purpose to enter upon the question now agitating the scien- 
tific world, as to whether mankind be descended from one pair or from 
several; and if the latter, whether these original pairs were of one single 
species, or of a greater number. The problem is still far from being solved, 
requiring the combined efforts of the anatomist, the physiologist, the zoolo- 
gist, the philologist, and the theologian. Nowhere is a severe application of 
all the principles of modern scientific investigation more necessary to a 
satisfactory conclusion than in this instance. 
Any attempt at a systematic classification of man, as at present distributed 
‘Over the surface of the globe, is attended with great difficulties. Although 
in typical individuals of different nations strongly marked features of dis- 
tinction. may be observed, yet, when we attempt to include mankind in one 
‘general arrangement, we find such an endless variety, such insensible gra- 
‘dations from one form into another, such unexpected anomalies in particular 
‘eircumstances, as almost to cause the ethnologist to throw down his pen in 
‘despair. It is for this reason that different authors have had such appa- 
rently contradictory views as to the number of principal races, and their 
proper sub-divisions. Thus, Desmoulins gives sixteen such races; Bory 
de St. Vincent, fifteen; Prichard, seven; Blumenbach, five; while Cuvier 
makes only three. The five races of Blumenbach are termed by him :— 
‘Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, Malay, and American. Cuvier refers the 
“Malay race to the Ethiopian, and the American to the Mongolian, leaving 
‘Neily the Caucasian, Mongolian, and Ethiopian. 
+ Dr. Chas. cee in his important work entitled ‘‘The Races of Man,” 
ess eleven races, as follows: 
t . | a. White. 
1. AraBran. Nose prominent ; lips thin; beard abundant; hair straight 
and flowing. 
_ 2. ABYSSINIAN, Complexion hardly becoming florid; nose prominent ; 
hair crisped. 
b. Brown. 
~ 8. Moneouian. Beardless; with the hair perfectly straight, and very 
‘long. 
4. Horrentor. Negro features, and close woolly hair ; stature diminu- 
tive. 
- 5. Matay. Features not prominent in the profile’: complexion darker 
than in the preceding races; the hair straight, or flowing. 
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