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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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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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WOMEN GATHERING FOOD.—Drawn by Tofani, from a description. sand two hundred and seventy-six centi-meters, while the lowest measurementfalls off to one thousand one hundredand eighty-one centimeters. Compara-tively, the average Australian brain isless than that of the Nigritians by abouteighty-four cubic centimeters, or six andsix tenths per cent of the whole. This critical mark of inferiority is re-inforced bv others of like significance. this we may add that the Australiannose is broadest and most nearly approx-imates the merely animal nose of thegorilla. All of these features combinedproduce an aggregate effect of mentalweakness and physical animality forwhich perhaps no parallel can be foundamong any other species of mankind. In a few of their physical characteris-tics the Australians, on the other hand, A US TRA LI A NS.—A BORIGINA L BLA C AS. 705 brain qualitymust be con-sidered. appear to better advantage than do theNigritians. While the latter are jet-black,Color and hair;

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