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 . of Australia, the is-land of Tasmania, and, in general, theMelanesian archipelago. The foregoing classification of the hu-man race on the scientific method andby the distinction of color is, perhaps, asnearly a satisfactory solution of the prob-lem as can be given in the other plans ofpresent state of knowledge. ^^^^^^The three distinctions of with , Brown, and Black races arefundamental. They are broad enoughto includ
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 . of Australia, the is-land of Tasmania, and, in general, theMelanesian archipelago. The foregoing classification of the hu-man race on the scientific method andby the distinction of color is, perhaps, asnearly a satisfactory solution of the prob-lem as can be given in the other plans ofpresent state of knowledge. ^^^^^^The three distinctions of with , Brown, and Black races arefundamental. They are broad enoughto include the whole race of man, withits multiform developments in ancientand modern times. The classification issufficiently ample to embrace in its majorand minor divisions all the races andpeoples which have been distinguished 434 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. from each other by means of historicaland linguistic inquiry. It is easy to con-form to this plan of division all the othersthat have been suggested, and to makethem consistent with the wider and morescientific scheme. Thus, for instance,the biblical race of Japheth, the histori-cal divisions of mankind called Indo-. ?^^u THE BLACK TYPE—NEGRO by Riou. European, the ethnic branches of mencalled Aryan in the linguistic classifica-tion, all fall under the common designa-tion of Ruddy races. With these aregrouped by means of the same colordistinction the Semitic families of men,and also the Hamitic divisions. Theseten races taken together constitute thewhole group, which may be defined bythe term Ruddy and considered as of aprimary, common descent. In the second place, the widely dis-seminated Brown races, covering nearlythe whole of Asia, the General distri- two great continents of the butionof the -TTT- - J .I . Bro-wn races. West, and the greater partof Polynesia, may be grouped togetheron the line of color and considered as acommon family in its origin and racedescent. It will be the purpose inthe following pages of
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