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 . iminutive an ancestor. Thereis one circumstance, however, whichbreaks the analogy so far as the devel-opment of the human body is concerned;that is, that the most intellectual andpowerful peoples, civilly, socially, andpolitically considered, have not beenthose of largest stature. This is to saythat if the evolutionary process isto be accepted as an explanation of 568 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the large size of some races as com-p
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 . iminutive an ancestor. Thereis one circumstance, however, whichbreaks the analogy so far as the devel-opment of the human body is concerned;that is, that the most intellectual andpowerful peoples, civilly, socially, andpolitically considered, have not beenthose of largest stature. This is to saythat if the evolutionary process isto be accepted as an explanation of 568 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. the large size of some races as com-pared with the diminutive stature ofothers, there is a clear break in theanalogy of bodily and intellectual evo-lution—a thing that may be difficult ofexplanation. It is not intended in these pages toenter into the abstruse and difficultquestions of biology. Such matters absolute proof exists of a smaller raceof people than these. The nativeAustralians and some of the inhab-itants of the Melanesian islands areno more than four feet in stature,and are slender in proportion. Theseexamples may be taken as a minimumof size for prehistoric and existing racesof THE TARPAN (FIRST REMOVE FROM THE PRIMITIVE HORSE). may be remanded to specialists and tothe skill and scholarship of the future.„^ , ,. It is sufficient to note the The lo-west lim-its of size in the great diversity in the sizehuman race. r ,, , r -i- rr of the members of differentraces. In a preceding book it was notedthat the prehistoi-ic folk who were buriedin the stone boxes along the banks ofthe Cumberland, in North America,were no more than three and a half feetin stature. It is doubtful whether any In considering the other extreme, wecome to the half-mythical and half-his-torical giants of the heroic ages. Near-ly all races have transmitted to posteritysome account of exceptionally enormousspecimens of the race, and in some tra-ditions we have accounts of Maxima of whole tribes conforming to ^:^l^the gigantic
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