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Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t science has definitely decided that mankind forms onlyone species, regarded as an animal, although some persons still hold theMankind one Opinion that mankind consists of several species, distinct fromspecies, qj^q another, like the lion from the tiger. All mankind canintermarry with one another, and the offspring of every kind of marriageexist. There is no distinction in structure between different races of men,sufficient to mark them off with certainty from one another hy a broadline of demarcation. It is very evident, when their structure is examined,that the varieties of pigeons and of dogs present much greater contraststhan those which exist between the most diversified specimens ofhumanity. That man has lived upon the earth much longer that was formerly Time Supposed is now generally agreed, although there is great uncer- fOT g?e^^ taiiity as to the duration of his existence. Regarding mankind chanifes. as having originated from one stock, it is e\adent that much INTRODUCTION.
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ASIATIC AND AMERICAN TYPES. INTR OD UCTION. time has been necessary for tlie production of the teeming populationsof India and China, with their encUess diversities, for the settlement otthe various tribes throughout the globe, and the acclimatisation andadaptation of races to their conditions of life. Again, seeing how slowlymen have developed and advanced during the Cliristian era, and con-sidering that they were sufaciently developed four thousand years ago toexecute marvellous sculptures, and to buHd temples and other structures demanding great genius, we perceive that long ages must have beenoccupied in the progress which preceded such attainments. Again, the striking differences between types of men from differentcountries—the dark complexion of the ItaHan organ-grmder, the faircontrast of Englishman, the yellow Chinese, the dark-brown negro-types. indicate to us that, if we believe these to have aU sprungfrom one stock, much time must be given for the operation of causes ofch

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