Chapter I: Preface

The following pages represent a Course of Six Lectures delivered at the Mechanics’ Institution, Liverpool, in the month of March of the present year; the matter being now laid before the public in a somewhat fuller and more systematic form than was compatible with the original delivery.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
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The Natural or Physical history of Man--the Civil--their
difference--divisions of the Natural or Physical
history--Anthropology--Ethnology--how far pursued by the
ancients--Herodotus--how far by the moderns--Buffon--
Linnæus--Daubenton--Camper--Blumenbach--the term
_Caucasian_--Cuvier--Philology as an instrument of
ethnological investigation--Pigafetta--Hervas--Leibnitz--
Reland--Adelung--Klaproth--the union of Philology and of
Anatomy--Prichard--its Palæontological character--
influence of Lyell’s Geology--of Whewell’s History of the
Inductive Sciences 1–36

CHAPTER II.

Ethnology--its objects--the chief problems connected with
it--prospective questions--transfer of populations--
Extract from Knox--correlation of certain parts of the
body to certain external influences--parts less subject to
such influences--retrospective questions--the unity or
non-unity of our species--opinions--plurality of species--
multiplicity of protoplasts--doctrine of development--
Dokkos--Extract--antiquity of our species--its geographical
origin--the term _race_ 37–66

CHAPTER III.

Methods--the science one of observation and deduction rather
than experiment--classification--on mineralogical, on
zoological principles--the first for Anthropology, the
second for Ethnology--value of Language as a test--
instances of its loss--of its retention--when it proves
original relation, when intercourse--the grammatical and
glossarial tests--classifications must be _real_--the
distribution of Man--size of area--ethnological contrasts
in close geographical contact--discontinuity and isolation
of areas--oceanic migrations 67–100

CHAPTER IV.

Details of distribution--their conventional character--
convergence from the circumference to the centre--
Fuegians; Patagonian, Pampa, and Chaco Indians--
Peruvians--D’Orbigny’s characters--other South American
Indians--of the Missions--of Guiana--of Venezuela--
Guarani--Caribs--Central America--Mexican civilization
no isolated phænomenon--North American Indians--Eskimo--
apparent objections to their connection with the Americans
and Asiatics--Tasmanians--Australians--Papuás--
Polynesians--Micronesians--Malagasi--Hottentots--Kaffres--
Negroes--Berbers--Abyssinians--Copts--the Semitic family--
Primary and secondary migrations 101–157

CHAPTER V.

The Ugrians of Lapland, Finland, Permia, the Ural Mountains
and the Volga--area of the light-haired families--
Turanians--the Kelts of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Gaul--the
Goths--the Sarmatians--the Greeks and Latins--difficulties
of European ethnology--displacement--intermixture--
identification of ancient families--extinction of ancient
families--the Etruscans--the Pelasgi--isolation--the
Basks--the Albanians--classifications and hypotheses--the
term Indo-European--the Finnic hypothesis 158–183

CHAPTER VI.

The Monosyllabic Area--the Tʻhay--the Môn and Khô--Tables--
the Bʻhot--the Chinese--Burmese--Persia--India--Tamulian
family--the Brahúi--the Dioscurians--the Georgians--Irôn--
Mizjeji--Lesgians--Armenians--Asia Minor--Lycians--
Carians--Paropamisans--Conclusion 184–250

MAN AND HIS MIGRATIONS.