Title: Preadamites,
Authors: Winchell, Alexander,
Date: 1880
Publisher: S. C. Griggs and company; [etc., etc.]
Physical description: xxvi, 500 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: Some traditional beliefs -- Biblical language -- The Hamites and their dispersion -- The Semites and their dispersion -- The Japhetites and their dispersion -- Principal types of mankind -- Limited scope of Biblical ethnography -- A glance at Hebrew chronology -- Elements of Egyptian chronology -- Prenoachite races -- Race distinctions -- Biblical antiquity of race distinctions -- Non-biblical antiquity of race distinctions -- Preadamite races -- Hamitic origin of negroes considered -- Negro inferiority -- Do races degenerate? -- Theological consequences of Preadamitism -- Genealogy of the black races -- Genealogy of the brown races -- Genealogy of the white race -- The cradle of humaniy and the dispersion of the black races -- Dispersion of Asiatic Mongoloids -- Dispersion of American Mongoloids -- Dispersion of the Dravidians and Mediterraneans -- Condition of primitive man -- Antiquity of man -- The patriarchal periods -- Preadamitism in literature.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Human beings--Origin.