Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . re-riched with a sent extremes^ . of Hindu deTel- great store of m- drawn from the oldand abandoned mines of theEast. The Hindus of to-dayare the same in personal ap-pearance as they were in thedays when they were describedby the invading Greeks. Thisview is more true of the Brah-mans than of the lower representations in the oldIndian sculpture preserve theidentical figure, the form, thefeatures, and
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . re-riched with a sent extremes^ . of Hindu deTel- great store of m- drawn from the oldand abandoned mines of theEast. The Hindus of to-dayare the same in personal ap-pearance as they were in thedays when they were describedby the invading Greeks. Thisview is more true of the Brah-mans than of the lower representations in the oldIndian sculpture preserve theidentical figure, the form, thefeatures, and much of the ap-parel of the modern descend-ant of the Old Aryans. TheHindus, then, are of middlesize. From this stature theBrahmans depart in one direc-tion and the Sudras in an-other. That is, the Brahmansare fully up to or beyond theaverage height, Avhile the Su-dras and other lower caste peo-ples are below that standard—much below it. Ethnogra-phers have estimated the aver-age height of the Hindus, considered asa race, at one hundred and sixty-threecentimeters, or sixty-four inches inEnglish measure. This, perhaps, is alittle above the average of the Japa-. 726 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. The bodily organs of the Hindu aresymmetrical, but light. The limbs areBodily charao- often delicate, so slendermndus^ the^^ indeed as to suggest weak-coior. jiess according to the stal- wart Western criterion. As the travelerpasses from the plains into the hill-countries, however, he comes upon morevigorous tribes. In Rajputana, and otherdistricts similarly situated, the averageheight is greater and the bodily weightand strength are augmented. The com-plexion varies from almost white,through dark yellow, to bronze, or evento a sooty black. The last-named coloris always indicative of foreign admix-ture, the absorption of that Old Dravid-ian stock which contributed the abo-rigines. There is a general intensifica-tion of the skin pigment as we proceedfrom the north to the south, from themountai
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