New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-04

are in color and IN skuasO language. or these the
obvious is color but here, again. the varieties mu
tipy In proportion we consider Transitional OF lu
mediate hues Two great teachers In the last Centu!'
Linn@us-Of whom 1t was said " God made I
sihed Deus leea LinnGS a'sp9s'-aha han,, ni Win
four-white copper, olive and black; CORRESPONDENTS ee
BnSan an TO onniyt pcTraare recognizes i've with
geographical designations lie was tOlo"eu W nJb
have become so famous since Caucasian. Monaghan.
Ethiopian, American. ana Malay Here hrs tuo
popular but deceptive term Caucasian, for nobody sup
poses now that the white cradle Caucasus which
best known Engishspeakng people by tue verse vi
Shakespeare making IT anything any a nut St Eden;
b. blinking Of the frosty csacsso,i
Blumenbach was an able inquirer and his
nomenclature is defective IT only another illustration
and i nerecd II mention other attempts it is only
show how science hesates before this great problem.
snbdvisions and lends his great authority to the
Caucasian. which he adopts from Blumenbach' Ihe
w6ite yellow and Black but afterward recognized six
white, bistre, orange. yellow, rod blach-represehtsd
SSPRSoSS ASerca hu'CpG and NegTO
and Asatic Desmoulins makes WE'VE ., bo ~
DC ST. VINCENT 5 t0 ads = oogG Journal naEs no less
than g. of which % varieties are Intellectual ana %
physical and hen%e are tod be Of ancient
Egypt they appear in the magnificent works OF kos
whose experience was gained on the exploring exped
tion of Capt Wilkes in his work on inc Races OF g
varieties OF man. according to color, divided into four
groups-white, brown. blacklsh.brown, and black In
His opinion there is middle ground between the ad
mission OF IL distinct species in the Human Family ana
The German anatomist, Camper. distinguishes the
human family by the facial angle ranging rom lVo
degrees in the head OF Apollo perpetuated Oy creek
TEMPT was CONTINUED by Vrey who divides into two
Species the first with facial angle OF $50 TO 9O ucuun
Caucasian, Monaghan and copper-colored American ana
tho second with facial angle OF 75o to $50 including
darkbrown Malay, blacklist HOttentot and Papuan ana
the Negro. Pr1chard, whose youmnous WORKS co ,
tute an chronological mine. finds, chiefly from the skull
seven varieties. which he calls % lahian from lrn tho
primeval seat IN Persia OF the Arian race embracing te
Caucasian OF BumenDach with some Aslltlc anu African
nations ~ Turanian or Mongolan; CJ American. ~,
Guiding EsqulmauX; az H0ttentOt ana buShnau V
Negro (6J PapuaB woody haired Polyneslan CO Aus
taian. The same industrious observer finds three pn
cpai varieties IN the CONFORMATION OF tue nea;
spending respectively to savage nomadc ana oivzea
IN the savage African ana Ausudndm tIo ia" -
prolonged forward constituting what ne cas " an eA
pressive term. prOgnathous In the nOmadc Mongona1
the skull Is pyramdal and the lace broad ln
the skull Is oval ana elptcA But lle nati siiSe
records that there forms OF transition as buttons h
prOach to civilization or relapse 10 Daiosu nus rh
the human skull refuse any dehhtYe answer, nhgro
are varieties OF skull o. color but the question ehaS
vain is the attempt to Obtain guae IN ue ioT ~
human peyis. But every such attempt ana ITS anuie
has its lesson There remains one other erieron-l mean
language; and here the testimony such as 10 disturb All
divisions founded color or skull Tor II aScertaneu
bavinr common origin. The ancient Sanskrit. some
times called the most elaborate Of dialects mas yedea
its secret pathological research. and now stands 10TH
ths mother tongue of the European nations IL Is am
cult measure the Importance OF tins refelauon iUr
difficulty in accepting pOstuate OF original diversity
UNITY or ORIGIN.
And the question arises, how are these varieties 10
be regarded III the Hight OF scencG Are they aboriginal
and from the begnniDgl Or are they superndnced oy
secondary causes OF which the record is lost In the ex
tended night preceding our historic day. Here inc
authorities are divided On the side reminded
that within the period OF recognized chronology no per
ccphle change has occurred In any Of these varieties
,,fetnr al
tude from which among us he is happy rcedheu anu ~
is insisted that known influences OF climate or place arc
snfcIent 10 explain such transformations from an aDo
rgnal type, while plural types are IN conformity WIN
tbe analogics Of the animal and vegetable world. On
tbc fbcr sSr we are reminded that, whatever may be
the difficulties from suppOsng common center OF croa
lion thcro are greater st in suppOsiug plural centers
tbat geographical science makes rs hcquNlutcu WIN
intermediate gradatons OF color and conformation IN
when The great contrasts dsappear-that, even
within the last half century ana Ia Europe people
md md RIM into common type, thus aitestug sub
lection 10 transforming nhueuces-htt aiter accepting
The races already described there are other nhreuc IA
tionai family and Individual, not less difficult OF cN
nanaton and insisted that whatever these Nare
ties, De- they few or many theIe 10 auong tl,i M a
orerruhng Uniig 10y which they are cnnsitutcd one ana
the same cosmopolitan species, endowed VIII sp..ch
reason. conscience and The nope OF imm9ra5y knitting
ali together In a common Humanity, ard amid AL seem
ing differences making all az near 10 caeh etner ~ my
are far apart from every other created lning Wne 20
every one given that great first Instrument oil clVlk
ton the human hand, by which the earth Is titled cities
bulls history written aud the stars ineasnr,I anu ms
unquestionHble Unity II pronounced ahsnihciehl eN
Deuce OF "a common origin.
I'm considering this great question. do all inquirers
anfciently recognize the element oi umei Obviously
the sphere OF 9Irayon n IN. Su M Win time Con-
inning ourselves 10 recognized chronology existing var
cites cannot be TCcOncUd With That unity IOnnd ~
common origin. What are the COCO years OF Hebrew
time what the 1900 years OF human annals Sane
toned by tho learning and pley Ot Busen LOT te con
summation OF these transfonationsi And this longest
period how brief for the completion OF those two marVe
Gus languages Sauskut and Greek, which AT the earliest
dawn OF authentic history were Alie4uS 80 Pe,Tes
Considering the iuhntudes OF astronomy ana those ober
nhntudes OF geology u Il not unreasonable to claim
antiquity Tor prmeVh man eompareu win
which all the years OF authentic history arr u
Known changes Of nature where heat and cold srove
mastery, transformation consistent with the eerVa
ton Of the Characteristic species was imposbc Egyp
X not alone i'm its sphinx pcrpleNing moftus win per
petua enigma. Science IL our Sphinx and ~ enigma Is
"Tme" Nor Is II unreasonable 10 suppose that at the
creation conditions stamped upon maD' making
transformations natural Because unnatural according
10 observation during the brief period OF historic time II
does not follow that they are not strictly hccOrunR 70
law. The famous calculating machine OF charles baO
bage the eminent Mathematician described In his
markabe Brdgewater Treatise where science Yndcates
the ways Of Providence to man. supplies an Illus
tratiOn, which is not without instruction. lhs
machine, with power almost mlraculOus, was
natural numbers in regular order from unity 20 a
number expressed by one hundred millions ana 0neLlo0
by diiereut law, which continued until at certain
number the series was again changed, ana ali theSe
PROPULSION az the beginning Any simple observer find
Ing that the series stretch onward through successive
the vast induction that IL must proceed always accord
ing TO the same law and yet u was not So bnt the car
culatlDg machine IS only contrvanee OF human skill
Aud cannot the Creator do much That is very IN
adequate conception OF the Power creating the
universe aud placing In IT, which suppOses, accord
ing the language OF Sir John IIerscheI the eminent
astronomer that His combinations are exhausted IN
any OF the theaters OF their former exercise Thus far
We know that the law OF the series when governed
primeval Who say that after lapse Of time,
changes did not occur always obedience 10 conditions
stamped upon HIN at the creatiOnt
simpler illustration carries US to the same result
cogwheel 80 common In machinery, operates ordinarily
by the cogs its RIM hut the wheel may be 80 con
sructed after certain Of rotations another
set OF cogs presented inducing different motion. All