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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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656 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. proceed rather to speak of some of theadditional ethnic peculiarities of therace as a whole. In personal character the African isstrongly distinguished from the repre-sentatives of other races. It is clearthat in his form and featureshe approximates by down-ward gradation the higherspecies of the quadrumana. The parts Strongly dis-tinctive traits ofAfricans ; cra-nial capacity. of the gorilla is hardly in any casegreater than twenty ounces in weight,while the average capacity of the Nigri-tian skull is about thirty-five ounces.Europeans have a capacity of forty-fiveounces or more. The Germans, stand-ing at the head in this particular, havean average capacity of nearly fiftyounces of brain. From these numbersit would appear that, if the difference
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SLAVES CARRYING THE DRUM BASKET of his body bear many marks of an af-finity to those animals which are sup-posed to be denied the gift of reason.On the whole, the African is stronglybound with human kind, and the gapbetween him and the lower orders isconspicuous from its width and depth.Thus, for instance, the cranial capacity Drawn by Riou, from a description. between the native African brain andthat of the highest of the lower animalsis great, the difference between the samebrain and the average of Europeans issufficiently conspicuous. When Ave reflect that the abilities andcivilizing powers of the different racesof men are in proportion to the extent

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:World_history
  • bookpublisher:Cincinnati___Jones
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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