THE HUMAN FAMILY.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 45, 12 November 1886, Page 2

THE HUMAN FAMILY.

The human family living on earth consists of alsiut 1,46<1.0u0.0vt0 individuals ; not lees, probaldy more. These are distributed over llie earth's surface, so tiiat now there is no considerable port where men is not found. In Asia, where lie was first planted, are now aj>pro\im;<'.ely ai.nil H 00.000.000, densely crowdad ; on an average 121) to the square unit. Iu Europe there are MO.tkKt.OOO, averaging 100 to the square mile, not so crowded, hut every where dense, and at points over-populate*!. In Africa there are 210,000,000. In America. North and South, there are 110,000,000, relatively thinly scattered and recent. In the islands, large and small, pro bahly 10.000.0Q0. The extremes of the white and black are as five to three ; the remaining 700.000, (MM) intermediate brown and taw nv. t H'the race 500.000.000 are well ehitiied -timt is wear garment of souk- kmd ui cover their nakedness ; 7tk),OJU,OOO are semi clothed, covering inferior parts of the Ikslv ; 260.000.0lN.) are practically naked. Of the race, 50U.000.0fN) live in houses partly furnished with the appomtincnt* of ca vilest Lou ; 700.000,000 m huts, or caves, with no furnishing ; ‘J60.000.000 have nothing tiiat can U called a home. - are Isutiaivi'.is aud savage. The range i* trem the input <*. round -the Auglo Saioa civilisation, which is the highest known —<kiwn to nakud savagery. The |>orUoii of the race lying below the hue of human condition is, at the very l.ia-t three fifths of the whole, or INi).000.000.