The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-11-08
THE RACES OF MANKIND.
There Are ~ of Them Existing Now-AM
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
summary of the general conclusions
with regard to the origin and distribu-
ton of mankind.
Neglecting the minor differences. he
estimates that there are no fewer than
s~eventy-two distinct races in the human
species. All these descend or branch
off from three fundamental tvpes-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. Representa-
tives Of these different types and the
races which sprang from them are still
to be found there.
The whites, according to M. de
Quatrefages, appear to have originated
on the west of the central mass, the
yellows on the north, and the blacks q
the south. The whites extended west
ward and northward, giving birth to
three secondary types, the Finnish, the
Semitic, and the Aryan, if we accept
the Allophyles, which form n separate
group. Their area of distribution is
continuous, as is that of the yellows,
because of the extensive land surface
of the Eurasian continent. 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 attacks of the
whites and yellows, to go south into
Africa and east into the Indian Archi-
pelago, OF Melanesia. The proto-
Semits arrested their distributioni in the
north of Africa, and the mixture of the
two races give rise TO the negroid
populations. In the ENTER and south
of Africa the blacks continued in their
cthnic purity until the intiltration 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.
AS lol INC AllopyleS, represented ~
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 Oceania; the Allo-
! Phylian whites occupying Polynesia,
the blacks Melanesia, the yellows
MALAYSIA. The latter were, according
to NJ. de Quatrefages, the last to come
into the maritime world.
The peopling of America dates from
tina q%uaternary period, and is due tc
%migrations ofdiiferent types-Allophy.
lie white and yellow, blending with the
local quaternary races, which also be-
ionged to the yellow type. Europe,
since the tertiary ages has received
only Allophylian whites, Firms, and
Aryans. The number of races now
existing in II pure state is exceedingly
restricted, ii, indeed, there is a single
one which 4 be accepted as such
Perhaps some little groups protected
by their isolation, such as the Min.
copies, may show an identity of char
acters altcsting their ethnic homogene
ity.-Load0n Times.