The natural history of the human species : its typical forms, primeval distribution, filiations, and migrations / by Chas. Hamilton Smith ; with a preliminary abstract of the views of Blumenbach, Prichard, Bachman, Agassiz, and other authors of repute on the subject, by S. Kneeland, Jr.

  • Smith, Charles Hamilton.
Date:
1851
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    is apparently the work of the Phoenicians. The Arabs have ever been celebrated for their zeal in the diffusion of knowledge, though the amount of originality among them is by no means ascertained. He thinks all the alphabets that have ever been used are referable to a single prototype, and that Semitic. In order to account for the difference of tribes under the same lat- itude, he lays stress upon the accumulation of climatologic influ- ences, and the angle of migration; which he illustrates by supposed migrations through a single zone, and through many rapidly passed zones; in the former case the climatologic' influences would be accumulated much more than in the latter. The Japetidae he divides into — A. — Occidental Japetidae. B. — Indo-Germanic Japetidae. The first consists of the Celts and their branches. The second falls into two classes, the European, and the Iranian Indo-Germans; the former including the Gothic Sarmatian, and Mediterranean na- tions; the latter, the populations of Kurdistan, Persia, Beloochistan, AfFghanistan, and Kafferistan, — tribes descended from the speakers of the Sanscrit languages (in the present state of our inquiry, dead languages). Cuvier divides man into three stocks, Caucasian, Mongole or Altaic, and Negro; he refers the American to the Mongolian stock. Fischer divides man into Homo Japeticus ; H. Neptunianus ; H. Scythicus (Mongols) ; H. Americanus (Patagonians) ; H. Columbi- cus (Americans) ; H. Ethiopicus ; and H. Polynesius. Lesson divides man into the White Race ; Dusky Race, including Hindoos, Caffrarians, Papuans, and Australians ; Orange-colored Race, the Malay ; Yellow Race, the Mongolian, Oceanic and South American; Red Race, the Caribs, and North Americans ; and the Black Race. Dumeril proposes the divisions, Caucasian, Hyperborean, Mon- gole, American, Malay, and Ethiopian. Virey divides man into two species: the first, with facial angle of 85° to 90°, including the white race, (Caucasian,) the yellow race, (Mongolian,) and the copper-colored race (American) ; the second, with facial angle 75° to 82°, including the dark brown race, (Malay,) the black race, and the jackish race (Hottentots and Papuas). Desmoulins' sections are Celto-Scyth-Arabs ; Mongoles ; Ethio-