Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . and probability of error in classifying bymeans of language only. But there arc other means of a morestrictly scientific character which may beemployed in classifying the Possibility ofdivisions of the human <***s*r*z™ variations in race. Differences or identi- form-ties in anatomical structure, persistentlytransmitted from generation to genera-tion, constitute a valid evidence of eth-nic divergence or relation
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . and probability of error in classifying bymeans of language only. But there arc other means of a morestrictly scientific character which may beemployed in classifying the Possibility ofdivisions of the human <***s*r*z™ variations in race. Differences or identi- form-ties in anatomical structure, persistentlytransmitted from generation to genera-tion, constitute a valid evidence of eth-nic divergence or relationship. Thestature of a given people is generallyuniform. The men are of a uniformheight, and so are the women. In thisrespect the different families of man-kind have presented remarkable varia-. Dolicocephalic skull. Brachycephalic skull. CRANIAL CONFIGURATION, SHOWING VARIATIONS IN HUMAN FORM. presented itself. At times the conquer-ing race absorbs the language of theconquered people, and, in such a case,subsequent investigation would be putat fault if the linguistic affinity of thepeople were accepted as the sole criterionof its race relationship. The conspicu-ous modern example of the Normans,who abandoned their own Teutonicspeech and adopted French as their ver-nacular, carrying the same with theminto England, and effecting in the Eng-lish language a permanent modificationby the infusion therein of linguistic ele-ments which they had borrowed fromanother people, is sufficiently well known,and completely establishes the possibility tions. Some approximate the stature ofgiants, and others of pygmies. The pro-portions of the skeletons likewise con-stitute a fair basis of distinction betweenpeople of one race and those of character of the hands and the feet,the le
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