CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 1, BIMANA. 
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MONGOLIAN : GENGHIS KHAN. 
Chinese philosopher, Confucius, is an exception to the rule. To the Caucasian race belong the 
Arabian, Persian, Hebrew, Egyptian ; and all the European nations are descended of the Cau- 
casian race." 
This variety includes all the ancient and modern Europeans except the Finns ; the former and 
present inhabitants of AVestern Asia, as far as the river Oby, the Caspian Sea, and the Ganges, — 
that is, the Assyrians, Modes, and Chaldeans ; the Sarmatians, Scythians, and Parthians ; the 
Philistines, Phenicians, Jews, and the inhabitants of Syria generally ; the Tartars, properly so 
called ; the tribes actually occupying the chain of Caucasus ; the Georgians, Circassians, Mingre- 
lians, Armenians ; the Turks, Persians, Arabians, Afghans, and Hindoos of high castes ; and the 
northern Africans, the Egyptians, Abyssinians, and Guanches. 
2. THE MONGOLIAN VAEIETY. 
Characterized by olive-color, which in many cases is very light, and black eyes ; black, straight, 
strong, and thin hair ; little or no beard ; head of a square form, with small and low forehead 
broad and flattened face, with the features running together ; the glabeUa flat and very broad ; 
nose small and flat ; rounded cheeks, projecting externally ; narrow and linear aperture of the 
eyehds; eyes placed very obliquely ; slight projection of the chin ; large ears; thick lips; stature, 
particularly in the countries near the north pole, inferior to that of Europeans. 
It thus includes the tribes of Central and Northern Asia, as the Mongols, Calmucks, and Buriats ; 
the Mantchoos, Daiirians, Tungooses, and Coreans ; the Saraoiedes, Yukagers, Tschuktschi, Kori- 
acs, and Kamtchatkadales ; the Chinese and Japanese; thi inhabitants of Tibet and Bootan, of 
Tonquin, Cochin China, Ava, Pegu, Cambodia, Laos, and Siam ; the Finnish races of Northern 
Europe, as the Laplanders and the tribes of Esquimaux. 
