The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-15
ANTIQUITY OF RACES.
All People as Far Back as Can Be Traced
Exist as They Do Today.


DR.. Chamberlain spoke at O'Clock
on Some races of men," and said in
part One of the most remarkable facts
in history is that of the antiquity of
the races. So far back as we are able
to trace man, we know that the races
the black brown, red, yellow and white,
existed as they do today
The next fact that meets US is the
antiquity of race areas. We find that
the race now occupying the greater
part of Africa was the aboriginal race
Of that land. The same is true of China,
Asia, Europe, America. There is not a
1.-THE of evidence to show that any
other races ever existed in those places.
The islapds of the Pacific are the only
places which were colonized. Another
remarkable fact is this: We look in
vain for what we may term a pure
race. One can find Indians of all shades
of color, even where no white or black
man has ever been. This is true in
every continent. You can take the oeo-
pie in Africa and range them in a row.
and you can pass from the blacklist
negro to the whitest settler without
noticing the change.
The fact that the whole human race
runs along these lines, proves the unity
of the race. Since the mind has as
sured dominion, the race characteris-
tics have long ceased to make a differ
ence in intelligence, for members of all
have risen to the highest state of
learning. No race can claim that 1t is
the most beautiful race. Industries
have much to do with regulating the
physical proportion. The soldier and
sailor are much different. The native
OF a country adapts himself to the cir
cumstances and physical change may
take place. Then we take the skull. The
long and broad type of skulls is the
oldest, though there is discussion on
this question.
The views of Blumenbach and
Rancke incline to believe that the child
runs through the whole gamut of the
races The growth of his skull repre-
sents the history of the human race.
The same peculiar characteristics, it is
said, belong to the jaw. You have
heard such expression as the "Mongo-
liam eye," but it is nothing more than
the perpetuation of that which is nor
NAL in the human child. These things
which are called racial are nothing but
the child characteristics perpetuated
From the point of view of the skeleton,
there is no superior race. This is con-
.firmed by DR.. Baker of Washington
and Ly Rancke.
Some of the races which are called
superior have some points in the skel-
eton nearer the ape than some of the
so-called inferior races. In some sense
the child can be called the physical
father as well as the mental father of
man. That which we see and appre-
ciate as race differences is nothing but
advancement or retardation of the child
type. According to Dr. Rancke, the
Monaghan and Malay races present
the most striking characters of the child
life, While the Australian and negro are
farther from it. The European stands
between. There are peculiarities in ev-
cry race which bring it closer to the
original ancestor type.
Judged by his larger head alone, the
European stands closer to the child.
Another point of very great interest
is the great variation in types. One
can see that the scarcity of food and
things of that kind may have caused
primitive man to differ more than the
present man. Compare the Firms
and Laplanders, the first tall and light
colored, the latter short and stunted.
Fircoff says the difference is caused by
poverty. This is shown in childfen.
Between those who are well fed and
those who have not enough to eat,
there are observed certain character
nutrition.
Let us speak of the earliest man of
which we know. Many skulls have
been found all over Europe in such ge-
illogical stu as to lead one to believe
that they lived, if not before, immedi-
ately after what we call the glacial era
These skulls are of the long type Not
all have agreed that the Oldest men
were of the long-skulled type. 1t is
a fa OF hof -
mans We're long-headed people. Or
the other hand, the colonizing race
which we call Anglo-Saxon is long
headed. Taking the race found in
central Europe and finding them to
have the skull type of the Roman and
Anglo-Saxon, Surge says that these
were the ancestors of the organizing
Roman and colonizing Anglo-Saxon.
We find something of the same kind
in America Here there were long
headed people.
Now as to the mental characteristics
of the earliest races of men. Thou
sands of years ago art flourished in
central Europe. In western France a
high form of civilization had begun.
Opinions differ as to the character of
the primitive man. The human being
at three years of age represents the
race, says DR.. Buck. One hundred
thousand years ago they appeared,
They were hardly self -conscious: they
had no articulate speech.
That when man first appeared on
earth, he could speak no better than q
chattering idiot, seems to be untenable
1t appears that the first men knew
much more at the start than the sim
plest form of speech and kindred char
acteristics.
When our race began it began well,
as the child does today. AS each child
has some peculiar endowment, so has
each race.