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 |
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... Asiatic nations ; and even those analogies may perhaps be accounted for , as Humboldt has suggested , in the mere coincidence arising from similar wants and impulses in nations inhabiting similar latitudes . " 2d . That the American ...
... Asiatic nations ; and even those analogies may perhaps be accounted for , as Humboldt has suggested , in the mere coincidence arising from similar wants and impulses in nations inhabiting similar latitudes . " 2d . That the American ...
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... Asiatic , and perhaps of Arabic descent ; an idea which , I fancy , from the tenor of your letters , is your present conclusion . At any rate , they are not , and never were , Africans , still less Negroes . Monumental evidence appears ...
... Asiatic , and perhaps of Arabic descent ; an idea which , I fancy , from the tenor of your letters , is your present conclusion . At any rate , they are not , and never were , Africans , still less Negroes . Monumental evidence appears ...
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... Asiatic origin for the Egyptians . But his resumé contains propositions so important , that I must claim space for them entire , taking the liberty of calling the attention of the reader , by Italics , particularly to the last . 1. The ...
... Asiatic origin for the Egyptians . But his resumé contains propositions so important , that I must claim space for them entire , taking the liberty of calling the attention of the reader , by Italics , particularly to the last . 1. The ...
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... Asiatic realm , 1st , a north - eastern fauna , the Japanese fauna ; 2d , a south - eastern fauna , the Chinese fauna , and a central fauna , the Mongolian fauna , followed westwards by the Caspian fauna , which partakes partly of the ...
... Asiatic realm , 1st , a north - eastern fauna , the Japanese fauna ; 2d , a south - eastern fauna , the Chinese fauna , and a central fauna , the Mongolian fauna , followed westwards by the Caspian fauna , which partakes partly of the ...
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... Asiatic range of the temperate zone to be a most natural zoological realm , subdivided into distinct pro- vinces by the greater localization of the largest number of its repre- sentatives . If we now ask what are the nations of men ...
... Asiatic range of the temperate zone to be a most natural zoological realm , subdivided into distinct pro- vinces by the greater localization of the largest number of its repre- sentatives . If we now ask what are the nations of men ...
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