Identifier: newphysiognomyor00well (find matches)
Title: New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine."
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875
Subjects: Physiognomy Phrenology
Publisher: New York : Fowler & Wells
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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THE RACES CLASSIFIED. 379 signs in the physical system. Would we determine the statusof a race or a nation, we shall find the measure of its mentalpower in the size and quality of its average brain, and theindex of its civilization and culture in its prevailing style offace and figure. In so new a field of inquiry as the one upon which wo arenow entering, we can not hope to push our explorations into Fig. 474.—The Cattcasian Type.—Daniel Websteb. every part, or to investigate thoroughly every point that wemay touch upon. We are, to some extent, pioneers, and assuch shall do as well as we can the work assigned to us,trusting that those who follow will find their progress facili-tated by our labors. THE EACES CLASSIFIED. We shall adopt here, as best known and most generally r^ 380
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THE CAUCASIAN RACE. 381 ceived, though not perhaps most scientific, the classificationof Blumenbach. This arrangement will serve xhe purposeswe have in view as well as any other yet proposed, andwhether it be accepted by the reader or set aside in favor ofa more recent one, the value of thi facts we shall here throwtogether will not be lessened. Blumenbach recognizes five races— I. The Caucasian Race ^11. The Mongolian Race 5III. The Malayan Race ;TV. The American Race; andV. The Ethiopian Race.Of these five races, or groups of races, if the reader chooseto so consider them, we now purpose to give a general view,after which, in another chapter, we shall glance at some of thesub-races and nationalities into which they are divided. First,then, we will take up— V I. THE CAUCASIAN RACE. This race embraces most of the ancient and modern inhabit-ants of Europe and their descendants in America and other parts of the world; theinhabitants o f westernAsia, as far as the riverGanges; the Af

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