Chapter XII: Races of Mankind

Monogeny or Polygeny--Darwin--Existing Races--Colour--Hair--Skulls
and Brains--Dolichocephali and Brachycephali--Jaws
and Teeth--Stature--Other Tests--Isaac Taylor--Prehistoric
Types in Europe--Huxley's Classification--Language no Test of
Race--Egyptian Monuments--Human and Animal Races unchanged for 6000
years--Neolithic Races--Palæolithic--Different Races of Man as far
back as we can trace--Types of Canstadt, Cro-Magnon, and
Furfooz--Oldest Races Dolichocephalic--Skulls of Neanderthal and
Spy--Simian Characters--Objections--Evidence confined to
Europe--American Man--Calaveras Skull--Tertiary Man--Skull
of Castelnedolo--Leaves Monogeny or Polygeny an open
Question--Arguments on each side--Old Arguments from the Bible
and Philology exploded--What Darwinian Theory requires--Animal
Types traced up to the Eocene--Secondary Origins--Dog and
Horse--Fertility of Races--Question of Hybridity--Application
to Man--Difference of Constitutions--Negro and White--Bearing
on Question of Migration--Apes and Monkeys--Question of Original
Locality of Man--Asiatic Theory--Eur-African--American--Arctic--None
based on sufficient Evidence--Mere Speculations--Conclusion--Summary
of Evidence as to Human Origins 391

ILLUSTRATIONS

TABLET OF SNEFURA AT WADY MAGERAH 17

SPECIMEN OF HIEROGLYPHIC ALPHABET 19

PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH AND SPHYNX 24

FELLAH WOMAN AND HEAD OF SECOND HYKSOS STATUE 28

HYKSOS SPHYNX 28

STATUE OF PRINCE RAHOTEP'S WIFE 38

KHUFU-ANKH AND HIS SERVANTS--EARLY EGYPTIANS 39

CUNEIFORM 46

SYMBOLS 48

CYLINDER SEAL OF SARGON I 56

HEAD OF ANCIENT CHALDÆAN 60

STATUE OF GUD-EA, WITH INSCRIPTION 61

SEA-FIGHT IN THE TIME OF RAMSES III 79

KING OF THE HITTITES 82

CHIEF OF PUNT AND TWO MEN 93

QUEEN SENDING WARRIOR TO BATTLE 102

ADAM, EVE, AND THE SERPENT 103

JUDGMENT OF THE SOUL BY OSIRIS 113

PYRAMID 141

ZIGGURAT RESTORED 151

THE VILLAGE SHEIK 164

PALÆOLITHIC CELT 319

PALÆOLITHIC CELT IN ARGILLITE 319

PALÆOLITHIC FLINT CELT 322

PALÆOLITHIC CELT OF QUARTZITE FROM NATAL 322

PORTRAIT OF MAMMOTH 328

EARLIEST PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH SERPENTS
AND HORSES' HEADS 328

REINDEER FEEDING 328

ARROW-HEADS 352

CUTS WITH FLINT KNIFE ON RIB OF
BALÆONOTUS--PLIOCENE 354

CUT MAGNIFIED BY MICROSCOPE 354

FLINT SCRAPER FROM HIGH LEVEL DRIFT, KENT 358

UPPER MIOCENE IMPLEMENTS. PUY COURNY 359

COPARE QUATERNARY IMPLEMENTS 360

SECTION AT THENAY 362

MIDDLE MIOCENE IMPLEMENTS 364

MIDDLE MIOCENE IMPLEMENTS 365

COMPARE QUATERNARY IMPLEMENTS 367

SECTION OF GREAT CALIFORNIAN LAVA STREAM,
CUT THROUGH BY RIVERS 377

SECTION ACROSS TABLE MOUNTAIN, TUOLUMNE
COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 381

THE NAMPA IMAGE 387

L'HOMME AVANT L'HISTOIRE 402

HUMAN ORIGINS.