THE ORIGIN OF MANKING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2283, 18 November 1889, Page 2

THE ORIGIN OF MANKING.

M. do Quatrofages, the leading Fronoh ethnologist, m presenting tho suoond part of h>a " Introduction to the Study of tho Human Races " to the Academy of fe'eionecs, has given an intoroaling nummary of his ponoral conoluelona with regard to tho origin and general distribution of mankind. Neglecting tho minor (ii/leroDooß, he ootimutoa that thore are no f<iwor tb^n «ov'onty-lwQ dist^upt races m tho human speplos. All thaao doacond pr branch pff from thrcp fundamental typos -the b>pk, the ye'Uo'w, aud the white— which had their origin at iho great central region of Northern Aaiu, which 1b thus the oradJe of mankind.

liepreaonlativca of these different types and iho ticcß which spring fr^m )hom BKQ otill to bo found there. The vrhitoa, c coord inp tp M. do Quatrefugoa, nppoar to jxwo originated on the wont of iho central undone, the yeljows op pie north, nnd the blacks on ibf j south. The whiten ex tended westward and northward, giving bjrtb {q three Bocomdary typee', the Finnish, tho Semitic, and the Aryan, If wa excapt tbo AUophyloe, which form a toparstu fitoup. Their urea of dl trlbuttou la continuous, as la that of the yollo»ra, hocnuse of iho extoualvo land HUiface of tho Eurasian contlnont. The yollown Bprnad oontward and oroased into America. Tho whtton nnd yellowo oheokod or b^.ontfed yit>\ Oich other, prodaolng many yar.'o'Jau oj! man, Tho hi^uk, or negro typo, which oiijjluated dn th&'aouth of iho central mast*, was oompellod by iho nafcaro of tho continent, and probably by iho attackq oi (.bo Y.hl\,etf ftnd yollowe. to f;o noiith jfnto Afrlcsv ca^t into tho Indian Archipelago, or Moianeoli*. Tho Pr^to-Oomijieß airoHted theif distribution m the North qf Africa., and j;hq niixttiro or tbo two racon f<.,^vo riqo to tho pcpnlallona, In the qontro and eoutii C f r ' c a tho bliu;!.^ continued m their othnfe pu7.' lv ' unt i' tuo infillration o£ othor rapoa from ' Europe ailu !!'? north of Afiica m mojlora f}rneß. Those whioh remained m th ir origlxtal Lomo booarae blondod with tho whlton and yollows Riving tiao to <ho Draridian populations,' whioh pass by fch»doß into throo fundamental types. , Ao for tho Al ophyles repreaontod by thu race of Oro Magnon .hey occupied parts of Eoropo and JSprth Afnoa, from which they txtoflded to tho • '