New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . In character, the American Indian, as his organization indi-cates, is active, energetic, brave, dignified, grave, firm, cautious,cunning, stern, cruel, revengeful,and unrelenting. His perceptivefaculties are largely developed,but his powers of abstract reason-ing are small, and the range of hismind very limited.* Y. THE ETHIOPIA!^ RACE. The nations of this race arewidely dispersed. They occupyall Africa south of the Great Des-ert, and Abyssinia, Austra
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . In character, the American Indian, as his organization indi-cates, is active, energetic, brave, dignified, grave, firm, cautious,cunning, stern, cruel, revengeful,and unrelenting. His perceptivefaculties are largely developed,but his powers of abstract reason-ing are small, and the range of hismind very limited.* Y. THE ETHIOPIA!^ RACE. The nations of this race arewidely dispersed. They occupyall Africa south of the Great Des-ert, and Abyssinia, Australia, the , x» ij> T 1 Fig. 492.—Seminole Skull—Poste- greater part oi Jiorneo, and several kiob View. other islands in theIndian Archipela-go. To this racebelong also the ne-groes in America,who were original-ly brought fromAfrica, and whohave multiplied inthe Xew World toa vast extent, num-bering at presentseveral millions. There are, per-haps, in Africa,even a greaternumber of differenttribes and familiesthan among the In-dians of Xorth and. A Negeo.—« Sam. * In this description we have .taken the North American Indian as thetype of the American race. The South American tribes have smallerheads and are inferior to those of the North, but are distinguished by th«same general character. 390 ETHNOLOGY, OE TYPES OF MANKIND. South vVmerica; and they are as different in grade of intelligence and in disposition. The best examples of this race are the negroes south of the Sahara, in Upper and Lower^% Guinea, Soudan, and Xuhia. <£ The natives of Seneo-anibia andfci the Kaffres of the southeasternpart of Africa resemble othersof this race in their jet-blackcolor and some of their fea-tures, but they are taller, moreslender, and better proportion-ed than the rest. The neo^ro cranium is Ions:and narroWo This is equallyapparent whether it be viewedfrom the side, as in lig, 495, orComparing these drawings wdththose representing the Caucasian skull in the same positions(figs
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