Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ANCIKNT Alien KUS. So griat are the difficulties presented ;it this point of departure in the ethnographyof .la[ian, that T fear I shall not be able to offer a clear description of the elementswliicli compose the present population of that Empii-c. In fact, I can say nothing H 50 LIFE IN that will not be puzzling. It profits little to lay down as a principle that bythe form of their skulls the Japanese evidently belong to the Turanian ftimily, sincewhat we want to find is the link by wdiich the Japanese branch is attached to theTuranian trunk ; and
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . ANCIKNT Alien KUS. So griat are the difficulties presented ;it this point of departure in the ethnographyof .la[ian, that T fear I shall not be able to offer a clear description of the elementswliicli compose the present population of that Empii-c. In fact, I can say nothing H 50 LIFE IN that will not be puzzling. It profits little to lay down as a principle that bythe form of their skulls the Japanese evidently belong to the Turanian ftimily, sincewhat we want to find is the link by wdiich the Japanese branch is attached to theTuranian trunk ; and what it will be important to explain is the phenomenon of acommon trunk producing branches of the yellow race in China and Corea, and a littlefurther off, in Japan, a branch of the white race. The results obtained by linguistic research will be the more readily accepted asauthoritative by students of ethnography. M. Leon Rosny has established that theJapanese language, with its dialect of the Liou-Kiou Isles, has derived its originn
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