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Title: Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873 Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 Usher, W Patterson, Henry S. (Henry Stuart), 1815-1854 Gliddon, George R. (George Robins), 1809-1857
Subjects: Anthropology Continental Population Groups Religion and Science
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
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ry, so well known in this country through thework entitled Vestiges of Creation; though its premises are gen-erally adopted by those who would shrink from the conclusions towhich they necessarily lead. Whatever be the meaning of the coincidence alluded to above,it must in future remain an important element in ethnographicalstudies; and no theory of the distribution of the races of man, andof their migrations, can be satisfactory hereafter, which does notaccount for that fact. We may, however, draw already an important inference from thisinvestigation, which cannot fail to have its influence upon thefarther study of the human races: namely, that the laws whichregulate the diversity of animals, and their distribution upon earth,apply equally to man, within the same limits and in the same degree;and that all our liberty and moral responsibility, however spon-taneous, are yet instinctively directed by the All-wise and Omni-potent, to fulfil the great harmonies established in Nature. L. A.
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Tnilrnn to wvompaiiy Prof Jym.-ni Slrf/nh tfntl& Gtidtloiit Typms afMtutiind, /#£/ EXPLANATIONS OF THE TABLEAU ACCOMPANYING PROF. AGASSIZS SKETCH. I.-ARCTIC REALM. 1. Head — Eslamavx. (Franklin: 2d Exp. Pol. Sea; 1828; i. pi. 13.) 2. Skull — Eskimaux. ; Morton : Or. Amer.; p. 70. No. 1.)S.White Bear (Ursus maritimus).(Cuvier: Begne Anim.; Atlas,Mamm., pi. 30, fig. 3.) 4. Walrus (Trichecus Bosmarus). (Cuvier: op. cit.; pi. 45, fig. 1.) 5. Reindeer ( Cervus Tarandus). (Cuvier: op. cit.; pi. 87, fig. 2.) 6. Harp Seal (Phoca grcenlandica).(Shaw: Zool.; Mamm., i. pi.71.) 7. RightWhale (Balcena Mysticetus). (Cuvier: op.cit.; pi. 100, fig. 1.) 8. Eider Duck (Anas mollissima). (Audubon: Birds; 1843; vi. pi.405, fig. 1.) 9. Reindeer-moss (Cenomyce rangi-ferina). (Loudon : Enc. Plants;p. 969, No. 15,636.) II.-MONGOL REALM. 10. Head — Chinese. (Ham. Smith: Nat. Hist. Human Species ; 1848;pi. 10, Mongol.) 11. Skull — Oiinese. (Cutter : op.cit.; pi. 8, fig. iil.J 12. Bear (Ursus thihe

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