Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-11-09
The RACES or MANKIND.
There Are seventy-two OF Them Existing
Now-An Came from Asia.

There Are seventy-two Of Them Existing
Now-An Came from Asia.
NJ. de Quatrefages, the leading French
ethnologist, in presenting the second
part o. his Introduction TO the Study Of
the Human Races TO the Academy OF
Sciences, has given an interesting sum-
mary Of his general conclusions with re-
gard 10 the origin aud distribution Of
mankind.
Neglecting the minor differences, he
estimates that there are no fewer than
seventy-two distinct races in the human
species. All these descend or branch off
from three fundamental types - the
black, the yellow and the white-which
had their origin at the great central IN
of northern Asia. which is thus the era
die of mankind. Representatives of these
different types and the races which
sprang from them are still to be found
there.
The whites, according to VI. de Quatre-
FACES, appear 10 have originated on the
west Of the central mass, the yeilows on
the north and the blacks on the south.
The whites extended westward and
northward, giving birth to three second
airy types, the Finnish, the Semitic and
the Aryan, if we except the Allophyles,
which form a separate group. Their
area of distribution Is continuous, as is
that of the yellows, because of the extern
siye land surface o. the Eurasian cont
rent. The yellows spread eastward and
crossed into America. The whites and
yellows checked or blended with each
other, producing many varieties of man.
The blacks, or negro type, which original
ed ON the south Of the central mass, was
forced by the nature of the continent,
and probably by the attacks Of the
whites and yellowS, to go south into At
rica and east into the Indian archipelago
or Melanesia.
The proto-Semites arrested their dis
tribution in the north of Africa. and the
mixture OF the two races gave rise tothe
negroid populations. In the center aud
south of Africa the blacks continued in
their ethnic purity until the infltration
of other races from Europe and the north
of Africa in modern times. Those which
remained in their original home became
blended with the whites and yellows,
giving rise to the dravidian populations
which pass by shades into the three fun
damental types.
As for the Allophyles, represented by
the ace of Cro-Magnon, they occupied
parts of Europe and north Africa, from
which they extended to the Canaries.
The three fundamental types also found
themselves in Oceania; the Allophylian
whites occupying Polynesia. the blacks
M~elanesia, the yellows MALAYSIA. The lat
ter were, according TO NJ. de Quatrefages,
the last TO come into the maritime world.
The peopling Of America dates from
the quaternary period, and is due to mi
grations of different types-Allophylic
white and yellow, blending with the local
quaternary races, which also belonged 10
the yellow type. Europe, since the ter
tiary ages, has received only Allophylisn
whites, Firms and Aryans. The number
Of races now existing in a pure state is
exceedingly restricted, if, indeed, there
is a single one which a be accepted as
such. Perhaps some little groups, pro-
tected by their isolation, such as the
Mincopies, may show an identity of char
acters atteSting their ethnic ~homogeneity.
London Times.