Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-10
THE RACES OF MANKIND.
There are ~ of them existing now
All came from Asia.

NJ. de Quatrefrages, the leading
French ethnologist, in presenting the
second part of his " Introduction to the
Study OF the Human Races" to the Acad-
envy of Sciences, has given an interest
ing summary of his general conclusions
with regard to the origin and distribu-
ton 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
mass of northern Asia, which is thus the
cradle 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. de Quat
refages, 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
secondary types, the Finnish, the Semi
tic, and the Arryan, if we except the
Allophyles, which form a separate group.
Their area of distr button is continuous,
as is that of the yellows, because of the
extensive land surface of the Eurasian
continent. The yellows spreld east
ward and crossed into America. The
whites and yellows checked or blended
with each other. producing many yarie
ties of man. The blacks, or negro type,
which originated 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 Africa and east into the In
dian Archipelago, or Melanesia. The
proto-Semites arrested their distribu-
ton in the north of Africa, and the mix
ture of the two races gave rise to the
negroid populations. In the centre and
south of Africa the blacks continued in
their ethnic purity until the infiltration
of other races from Europe and the
north of Africa in modern times. Those
which remained in their original homo
became blended with the whites and
yellows, giving rise to tine dravidian
populations which pass by shades into
the three fundamental types
AS for the Allophyles, represented by
the race Of Gro 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
Melanesia, the yellows MALAYSIA. The
latter w-re, according to NJ. de Quatre-
flames, the last to come into the mari
time world.
The peopling of America dates from
the quarternary period, and is due to
lnigrations Of different types --Allophy-
lie white and yellow, blending with the
local quarternary races, which also be-
longed TO the yellow type. Europe,
since the tertiary ages, has received
only Allophylian whites, Firms, and
Aryans. The number Of races now ex-
listing in pure state is exceedingly re-
stricted, If. indeed, there is n sing one
which can be accepted as such. Perhaps
some little groups, protected by their
isolation, such rs the Mincopies, may
show an identity Of characters attest
ing their ethnic homogenity. - Sunday
Times.