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 . way race according to its true ethnic distinc-tions has never been satisfactorily ac-complished. The principle accordingto which the division or divisions are tobe made has never been well determined,and the problem at the present day isstill to be considered in its originalelements. It can but be of interest in this con-nection to present in brief some of theleading methods which have been adopt-ed in the attempted classificati
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 . way race according to its true ethnic distinc-tions has never been satisfactorily ac-complished. The principle accordingto which the division or divisions are tobe made has never been well determined,and the problem at the present day isstill to be considered in its originalelements. It can but be of interest in this con-nection to present in brief some of theleading methods which have been adopt-ed in the attempted classification of the. A METHOD OF .MIGRATION.—Eastern C. essential to the understanding of thebeginnings of human history. The division of the vegetable kingdomby Linnaeus, and the arrangement of theNo adequate animal world into generaSlytnfyftSr ^ud spccies and varietiescovered. by Cuvier, Were not more essential to the understanding of thosetwo great departments of nature than isan adequate classification of mankindinto races, families, and types essentialto a knowledge of ethnic history. Great,therefore, is the embarrassment of theinquirer to find that even to the presentday this work of classifying the human —Drawn by \V. J. Morgan. human race. The most learned of the an-cients were profoundly ignorant of the af-finities of the different fam- The ancients be-llies of mankind, and found divertitVo/theno pleasure in tracing ^^ relationships. On the contrary, themental tone of antiquity was against thenotion of the kinship and commondescent of the nations. Each peopledisseminated the belief in
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