Chapter II: THE DISPERSIVE ELEMENTS: adaptability of man to surroundings

1. The Migratory Instincts: love of roaming;
early commerce; lines of traffic and migration. 2. The
Combative Instincts: primitive condition of war; love of
combat; its advantages; heroes; development through
conflict.

LECTURE III.

THE BEGINNINGS AND SUBDIVISIONS OF RACES 79

CONTENTS.--The origin of Man. Theories of monogenism and
polygenism; of evolution; heterogenesis. Identities point
to one origin. Birthplace of the species. The oldest human
relics. Remains of the highest apes. Question of climate.
Negative arguments. Darwin’s belief that the species originated
in Africa confirmed; but with modifications. Quarternary
geography of Europe and Africa. Northern Africa
united with Southern Europe. Former shore lines. The
Sahara Sea. The quaternary continents of “Eurafrica”
and “Austafrica.” Relics of man in them. Man in pre-glacial
times. The Glacial Age. Effect on man. His condition
and acquirements. Appearance of primitive man.
His development into races. Approximate data of this.
Localities where it occurred. The “areas of characterization.”
Relations of continents to races. Theory of Linnaeus;
of modern ethnography. The continental areas:
Eurafrica; Austafrica; Asia; America. Classification of
races. Subdivisions of races; branches; stocks; groups;
peoples; tribes; nations. General ethnographic scheme.
Other terms: ethnos and ethnic; culture; civilization.
Stadia of culture.

LECTURE IV.

THE EURAFRICAN RACE; SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN
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CONTENTS.--The White Race. Synonyms. Properly an African
Race; relative areas; purest specimens. Types of the
White race; Libyo-Teutonic type; Cymric type; Celtic
type; Euskaric type. Variability of traits. Primal home
of the White Race not in Asia, but in Eurafrica. Early
migrations and subdivisions. North Mediterranean and
South Mediterranean branches.

_A._--THE SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN BRANCH.

I. THE HAMITIC STOCK. Relation to Semitic. 1. The Libyan
Group. Location. Peoples included. Physical appearance.
The Libyan blondes; languages. Early history;
European affiliations; relations to Iberian tribes: the names
_Iberi_ and _Berberi_. Government. Migration. The Etruscans
as Libyans. Later history; present culture. Syrian
Hamites and their influence. 2. The Egyptian Group.
Kinship to Libyans. Physical appearance. The stone age
in Egypt. Antiquity of Egyptian culture. Its influence.
Physical traits. 3. The East African Group. Relations to
Egypt.

II. THE SEMITIC STOCK. First entered Arabia from Africa.
1. The Arabian Group. Early divisions and culture. The
Arabs. Physical types; mental temperament; religious
idealisms. 2. The Abyssinian Group. Tribes included.
Period of migration. Condition. 3. The Chaldean Group.
Tribes included. The modern Jew.

LECTURE V.

THE EURAFRICAN RACE; NORTH MEDITERRANEAN
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CONTENTS.--_B._--THE NORTH MEDITERRANEAN BRANCH.