. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . lly six incheslower in reach than in the case of well-formed adults among the Whites. Thereare also many merely animal character-istics about the hands and the feet. Thelatter organs are flattened and have pro-jecting heels, with at least symptoms ofprehe
. Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . lly six incheslower in reach than in the case of well-formed adults among the Whites. Thereare also many merely animal character-istics about the hands and the feet. Thelatter organs are flattened and have pro-jecting heels, with at least symptoms ofprehensile power in the great toes, themarks of which power have long sincedisappeared in the structure of the Eu-ropean foot. Still other peculiarities may be notedin the Nigritians. The facial angle dif-fers greatly from that of the Aryan peo-ples. The mouth is enor- Countenance and complexion mously large, and the lips of the Africans. ., . , , . * . are thick and protuberantto a degree that may not be equaled inthe case of any other division of man-kind. As to the complexion, it is, incommon language, black; but this isnot strictly the true color of the Afri- cans. The complexion might moreproperly be defined as a blackish the case of some tribes the colordeepens almost to jet-black, and inothers it rises to a lighter hue; but. t-l!|.Di8SUN0 TYPICAL AFRICAN FORM— by Sirouy, from a photograph. never approaches ruddiness or thosevarieties of color which are the charac-teristics of the races defined as Brown. It is probably true that the exact lineof demarkation between black and browncould not be traced with precision alongthe borders of the two races so defined. 660 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. If, for instance, we should make a criti-cal examination of the color of the South-eastern Malays, where they drift downthrough Indonesia against the Papuans,who spread northward into the sameislands, we should, without doubt, findan ethnic selvage which could not beprop
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