The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-10-04
THE RACES OP MANKIND.
There are seysnty-TWo of Them Existing
HOW-All Came from Asia.

There are ssysnty!TWO Of Them Existing
NOw-All Came from Asia.
London Tlma,
NJ. de QuartreiSges, thelesdiDg French
elhuologist, 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, be
estimates that there are no lever than
seyenty-two distinct races in the human
species, All these descend or branch of
from three fundamental types-the
black, the yellow and the white-which
have 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.
Tue whites, according to NJ, de Quatre'
iages, appear to have originated ON the
west OF the central mass, the yellow on
the north, and the blacks on the south,
The whites extended westward and
nOrthward, giving birth 10 three second,
airy types, the Finnish, the Semitic and
the Afyan, II we except the Allophyles,
which form separate group, Their
area Of distribution Is continuous, as is
that OF the yellOws, because OF the ex'
tensiye land surface OF the Eurasian con,
tiuent. 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 originated on the south Of
the central mass, was forced by
the nature OF the continent, and probably
by the attaCkaO OF the whites and yellOws,
10 70 south into Africa and east into the
Indian Archipelago, or Melantsia The
proto-Semites arrested their distribution
IN the north Of Africa, and tue mixture
OF the two races gave rise 10 the negroid
populations. In the center and south Ot
Africa the blacks continued In their eth
mic purity until the utilization 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
fundamental types.
Az for the AllOphyles, represented by
the race OF Cr0.Magn0n, they occupied
parts OF Europe and North Africa, from
which they extended TO the Canaries.
The three fundamental types also
found themselves in 0ceania; the AllO'
phylian whites occupying Polynesia,
the blacks Malenesia, the yellows Mai. |
asia. The latter were, according TO NJ.
de Quatrefugus, the last to come into
the uiaratime world.
The peUpling Of America dates from
the quaternary period, and is due 10
migratiOns OF different types-Allophy-
lie white and yellow, blending with the
local quaternary races, which also BE-
lOnged to the yellow tyRe. Europe,
since the tertiary ages, has received
only AIlophylian whites, Firms and
Aryans. The number OF races now ex.
listing in a pure state IL exceedingly re.
slricted, II, indeed, there Is single one
which can be accepted as such. Per-
haps some little groups, protected by |
their isolation, such as the Mincopies,
may show al identity Of character ~.
testing their ethnic hOmOgenvity.