ALL EUROPEANS EXTINCT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 10

ALL EUROPEANS EXTINCT.

A QUAiNT DISCOVERY. PROBLEM OF TfiE DESCENT OF MAN: - Man, declares Dn Giuseppe Sergij profes- , sor of; nnthrbpolpgy (the, science bf riiail) in : the University of lloinej has "not always bee'ii the kirid of maii with whom #e are so well acquainted: He lias' appeared under threb : distinct, types, facial and physical,, Sirioe ;his : advent in humaii shajle upon tlio. globe:; His arrival at. hilmari nature—from what liiik> we as .yet ku.bw a three-fold process, each brbceSs a distinct ,one>.and each orio re-, ferable" to an aboriginal and distinct ahtlibr- . ancestry: ■ , The'importaritfe of Dr. Serges ridvbl .firidihgs aire.of-, grbat sigriific'arice in view df .tlio dispiitb betwe.cii the ethriblogiSt (a Student, of the races of mankind) and - thb jihilolbgist,(a language expert)) as tb thb.su-: periority of method in tracing the descent of iiian: The othholbgist clairiis that facial arid physical type will/solve thb; problem, the, jihilologist pretending, that the identity of robt-langiia^es—all: but established—is tb explain, the origin bf humaii kind: . ~ ■• Professor Sergi alleges ..that tlie.-brigiiial EUrbppiiii-.is extinct. T.lib Eurbp : eail ; nb.'sa.Vt,; Was.descended from a European primate, .br anthro'pdoid.apbi the African carrie of ari'African apej.: aiid-.the Asiatic's anthropoid -fore-, bears—-or'.'the missirig lirikSj as they arS cpxriifoohly, a,- distinctly. Asiatic., breed. ' ' - . y.. i;.y „ i Humari.rem'ains discovered in' Europe "show, that-the, present European man 'could-: riot haye 'desborided frbiri : the. brigiiiSl .EuMpan ' type.;! pi'bfeßs'br. arj;\ibs, tlie . Eufbiieah; mail is realiy extinciii aria the Europeans wb know are really Eiirafricansj br, genuine Euro-', tjearis bnd AfriciitiSj with . far more 6f • the lattbr thari.bf thb former. This theory wbrild iccbuht for thb ydribty of typfes oh tlie shbr'bj of the Mediterrariearij where the flaxeii^aife'd. "And blub-byed ina'ri and womiti afe tb.be iribt with "almost as frequbiitly, as thb. black or eyed arid jet-haired iiidividiials. ;.- Follb'wiilg the, phrbly physical; trabbs bf the Eufafricah, ivb fliidj bu cbriiparisbili tlisit the AiiStralian - hbbfigjries, -shbwi iii'. theit faces arid phj'Siijlie, tlibi'r Eiirbpeari .'lft thb sahib . fray tjib people of Hihdust-ah c>wß, tlib gefibi-ai putity.- of their prbriiincntt-fedtufes to ;thbir , Eurasian descbht—that, is; tb the. fact'.that.l gehiiihb Eiifbjledri: iidfiiSd cfdSsed, HlS.'or.her; breed,.with att Asiatic:' Griilting the;.;Elira'siari dbsbeht ;bf tlib bhre. Hiridii bf tb-3Ayj, it is ' impp'ssibloj bit the bvideftce .bf pliySiqubj ,at. buy rate/- tb deny. .to,;'tho' Irido-' t&irialriariythe'iribst progrbssive.rbf, the Mori-' gbliahs^his'desfcent ff'oni brigiAal Eurbp'dahs. On tho saihb assurbptioh htfdVdn.'-.ataViStiC' principles ,the Jap could be 'Shbwja : . to. 'bb. Sitriply ■ b -revbrsioii tb a Tbmbte ■ Etebpiiali AncbSt-o'f. . -v- .'--'V.-,. ', TheVo: is'iit.tlb. dbUbt. that the'lfishihshj' #it!i the bla'ssib features arid the'SpbdhiatiVe fifii; dfepite the MileSiaiiS or thb Ttt'dtlia db Dahiafis; is of a lfihdrbd race frith: th'e Greek: Whorb ShSll bo fbiilid thb genuine English--riiiii—the Saxori P. lii a'popiilntioii. bf fbrty. ftiillions of . Eiiglishriien. there, "ire pbf.hhps.flftbbn .per.celifc. who can gb.babk to -Witeriiigbfribti::; ot.. gbniiirib Anglo-Saxon, diyS.... The: ..Scottish'; .tabfe- 'are .'/of.' 'Irido;. Eiirepban." dhgirij ,&s Celtic as theft, jzreatesi strain, thb Northbrh Ffeueh;, ytrhile .thb-. pbd'plb'of Eastern France ; ire , GaUls.'bf a strolig Germanic typo. ' .. The; accepted : riibderri view does &Way with, the . theory, that , tlie hririian. rabe ihadV; only biio il-adle^—arid tliat in Cbritfiir Asia-., ' This theory is,, hbwevbrj bbhbbived on', h.riliysibal basiSj -arid .holds.' that; thb'short'liid dbirkr. llai.im- Variety .bf, mankind cairie; frbiri ,Asia jV ; iiid,; that' ;tlio v biiM-'. of: .thb .the'' , of' the', : Viking .or blond', type.','s ; . ' ■_ Hbweyer,' the philologist liaS more.- evidericb for a single huniaiV 'bradlb'in hi& faVbur.;; Hb that ; he .'can ,trace all,.modern laMuage.'or sjibech'to ii bbiiiriibu; Erigph tlirbugh tlib LoiV. D.iitbh,; this ihrbfeh tlie oerifi!itt, tiib.Gefih.aH thrciigh the Grebk) thb .GMek'to .thb Afabibj wlijle accidental admixtlifbs, -Subli AS'-French EiVgljsh.i thr.oiigh tlie Ijatiri: to ;thb it-"' self ibses—or "diScbfers—itself. ih t'h| r ;jijtabic.";