The Dickinson press., 1889-11-16
THE RACES OF MANKIND.
Thsyo Arc sevcnty-two of Them Existing
Now-Au Came from Asin.

Thsyo Arc ~Sevcnty-two of Them Existing
Now-An Came from Asia.
NJ. de Quatrefages, the leading French
ethnologist, in presenting the second
part of 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 to the origin and 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 centralma
of northern Asia, which is thy 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 NJ. dc Quatre-
FACES, appear to have originated on the
west of the central mass, the yellows 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
sive land surface of the Eurasian conti-
uent. The yellows spread eastward and
crossed into America. The whites and
ycllows checked or blended with each
other, producing many varieties of man
Theblacks, OF negro type, which originat-
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 AZ
RIGA 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 and
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 race 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 O%ceania; the Allophylian
whites occupying Polynesia, the blacks
Melanesia, the yellows MALAYSIA. The lat
ter were, according to NJ. de Quatrcfages,
the last to come into the maritime world.
The pcopling 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 to
the yellow type. Europe, since the ter
tiary ages, has received only Allophylian
whites, Firms and Aryans. The number
of races now existing in a pure state is
exceedingly restricted, if, indeed, there
is a single which a be accepted as
such. Perhaps some little groups, pro-
tected by their isolation, such as the
Mincopies, may show all identity of char
acters attesting their ethnic homogeneity.
London Times.