. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Alexander the Great.** Fig. Philip ^ SPECIFIC TYPES — CAUCASIAN. 105 The lineaments of Lycurgus and Eratosthenes, excepting thebeard, are snch as those one meets with daily in our streets; and thesame applies to the other familiar personages whose portraits wepresent. Were we to judge solely by the monuments of Greece, on account of the contrast Ihave p
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Alexander the Great.** Fig. Philip ^ SPECIFIC TYPES — CAUCASIAN. 105 The lineaments of Lycurgus and Eratosthenes, excepting thebeard, are snch as those one meets with daily in our streets; and thesame applies to the other familiar personages whose portraits wepresent. Were we to judge solely by the monuments of Greece, on account of the contrast Ihave pointed out, we should be tempted to regard the type of the fabulous or heroic per-sonages as ideal. But imagination more readily creates monsters than models of beauty;and this principle alone will suffice to convince us that it has existed in Greece, and thecountries where its population has spread, if it does not still exist there. The learned travellers, MM. de Stackelberg and de Bronsted,have journeyed through the Morea, and closely investigated the popu-lation. They assert that the heroic type is still extant in Here, then, there has been a notable preservation of apeculiar type — within a small geographical sp
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