
CuapTer VII 
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 
F now we attempt to draw to a head the many threads 
| that have been followed through the preceding 
pages, we find conclusions something like this:— 
The three aspects under which groups of human 
beings can be considered—their physique or race, their 
speech, and their life or civilization—do not yield co- 
incident pictures for the Philippines. They must there- 
fore be reviewed separately, as in so many other parts 
of the world. 
Racially, three varieties of man occur in the islands, 
besides the intrusive Europeans and Chinese of recent 
centuries. One of these three varieties, the Negrito, 
is of negroid affinities and a dwarf race. The two others, 
the Indonesian and the Malaysian, are both Mongoloid 
—the former less, the latter more specifically so; the 
difference between them is not very great, although 
indubitable. These three races or subraces reached the 
Philippines in the order named. The region of the 
source of the Negritos is wholly unknown. The origin 
of the Indonesians and Malaysians appears to have been 
in southern Asia, although the time and route of their 
arrivals remain questionable. 
On the side of language, the peoples of the Philip- 
pines do not break up into well marked groups, but 
without exceptions speak forms of a single mother 
tongue, the Malayo-Polynesian that prevails over most 
of the East Indies and Oceania. The local varieties 
of this within the Philippines are not so different but 
that they may well have developed on the spot. 
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