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Title: 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
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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chell,as the lowest type of hu-manity. Certain it isthat the race under consid-Austraiians eration does compete with compete for Africans for the i lowest rank. the lowest grade of existence. Wehave already had occasionto speak of the relativelydegraded rank of the Ni-gricans. We have tracedthe descending lines ofthat family of mankinduntil the decline of thenature of man seemed toreach a minimum in Da-homey and among theHottentots and B o j e s -mans. It only remains toinstitute certain compari-sons and to ascertain, ifwe may, the relative rankof the Australian aborig-ines. Is it true that the mind is thestandard of the man ? Is it true that themind is correlated in its powers and ac-tivities with the capacity of the brain ? 1 See Ridpaths Cyclopedia of Universal History,Vol. IV, pp. 833-839. Is the man directly as the brain whichhe possesses, or more properly as thebrain which possesses him ? So far as themerely physical conditions of the prob-lem are concerned, these we are able to
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NATIVE AUSTRALIAN SKULLS, FROM ROCKHAMPTON, CENTRAL QUEENSLAND.From Danish drawings. determine. In brain capacity, as de-cided by measurement, the native Aus-tralians are the lowest of mankind. Theaverage cranial measurement of the Ni-gritians ranges from one thousand threehundred and sixty to one thousand three -u\ GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. hundred and eighty-seven cubic centi-meters of matter. Measurements havebeen made of the brains of West Afri-can and South African women, showinga minimum of about one thousand twohundred and fifty cubic centimeters.The average cranial capacity of theAustralians is approximately one thou- The Australians are the most long-head-ed, or dolichocephalic, of any knownspecies of mankind. They smaUcranialare also the most progna- ^tSdptthous; that is, the counte- cuiiarity.nance is thrown forward in the centralpart to a greater degree than may beseen in any other human beings. To

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