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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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upulous care; and the whole is confirmed by the circumstance that thePushto has so near an affinity with the Chaldaic that it may justly be regarded as a dialectof that tongue. They are now confounded with the Arabs.82 This quotation is a fair specimen of the fabulous ethnography cur-rent among orthodox litterateurs of our day. There is no Biblicalor historical basis for the first assumption: the second is a misappre-hension, attributing to Judaism that which is due to Islamism in thelast 1000 years; and the third is explained by linguistic importations,Persic and Arabian; because the Pushto is a Medo-Persian branch ofIndo-European languages. Prichard himself treats Affghan derivationfrom the Israelites with a sneer83 — but the reader is referred to ouiSupplement for further citations on the subject, from the works ofthorough orientalists, who unite in testifying that the Semitic elementin Affghanistan, out of the synagogues, is exclusively Arabian. 124 PHYSICAL HISTORY OF THE JEWS,
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Fia. 13. The portrait of Dost-Moiiammedm blends Semitic features with thoseof the true Affghan ; and suffices toillustrate the similitudes perceivedby tourists who, partial to a theoryof the ten tribes journey intoTartary, have been blinded to thepalpable diversities of osteologicalstructure, which even Arab bloodhas not obliterated. We have thus gone over the phy-sical history of the Jewish race; and,although the argument is very farfrom being exhausted, we thinkenough has been said to satisfy anyunprejudiced mind that this specieshas preserved its peculiar type fromthe time of Abraham to the present day, or through more than onehundred generations; and has therefore transmitted directly to usthe features of Noahs family, which preceded that of Abraham, ac-cording to the so-termed Mosaic account, by only ten generations. If, then, the Jewish race has preserved the type of its forefathers for3500 years, in all climates of the earth, and under all forms of govern-ment—through extreme

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