The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-24
THE RACES OF MANKIND.
There are Seventy-Two of Them ES
listing NoW-An Came From asia.
From the London Times.


From the London Times
NJ de. Quatrefages, the leading French
ethonologlst, in presenting the second par5
of his Introduction to the Study of the
Human Races TO the academy of sciences
has given an interesting summary of his
general conclusions with regard to the
origin and distribution Of mankind.
Neglecting the minor differ enceS, he esti-
mates that there are no fewer than seventy
two distinct races in the human speces.
All these descend or branch of 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. Rep
resentativss of these different types and the
races whichssprang from them are still 10 be
found theres
The whites, according to M. dc Quatre-
FACES, appear to have originated on She
west of the central mass, the yellows ON the
north, and the blacks on the south. Tho
whites extea westward and norta ward
giving bfrtn to three secondary types, tine
Flemish, the Semetic and the Aryan, if we
except the Allophyles, which form separate
group. Their area of distribution Is con-
tinuous, as that of the yellows, because of
the extensive land surface of the Euraslaa
continent. The yellows spread eastward
and crossed into America The whites and
yellows checked or blended ,wita each other.
producing many varieties OF man. The
blacks, or negro type, which origf-
lated on the south of the cea-
trail mass, was forced by the
nature OF the continent, and probably by
the attacks of the whites and yellows. to 90
south into Africa and east into the Indian
archipelago, or Melsnesia. The proto-
Semites arrested their distribution in the
north of Africa and the mixture of the two
races gave rise to the negroid populations
In the center aud south of Africa the blacks
continued in their ethnic purity until the
intlltration of other races from Europe a I'd
the north Of Africa in modere times. Those
which remained IN their original home be-
came blended with the whites and yellows,
giving rise to the dravidian populations
which pass by shades into the three funda-
mental types.
AS for the AllophyleS. repressa ted by the
race Of Gro Magnon, they occupied parts of
Europe and North Africa, from which they
extended to the Canaries. The three fun
damental types also found themselves in
Oceanica, the Allophylian whites occupy
ing Polynesia, the blacks Melanesia, the
yellows Malasia. The latter were, accord
ing to M. de Quatrefages, the last to come
into the maritime world.
The peopling Of America dates from the
quaternary period and is due to migrations
of different types-Allophylic white and
yellow, blending with the local quaternary
races, which also belonged to the yellow
type. Europe, since the tertiary ages, has
received only Allophylian whites Firms aud
Aryans. The number Of races now existing
IN pure state is exceedingly restricted. ii,
indeed, there is a single one which can be
accepted as such. Perhaps some little
groups, protected by their isolation, sccl as
the Aincopies, may saow an identity of
character ettestiRg their ethnic homo
gsasity.