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The plurality of the human race

INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

Hugh J. C. Beavan translation

Aborigines, 54

Abou Simbel, 50

Abyssinia, 57

Acclimatisation, 58, 89

Aërolites, 112

Africa, Central, inhabitants of, 14, 68

African equality with European, 8

Age of the world, 122

Aldridge, Ira, 63

America, 6, 67, 74

Anatomy, human, 13

Angles of the skull, 137

Anoplotherium, 42

Anthropological Societies of Paris and London, 7

Anthropomorphous apes, 11, 41

Antilles, 56

Ants, 33

Arabs, 47

Aryan family, 19, 131, 143

Asiatic tribes, 18

Australia, 14, 67

Australian aborigines, 5, 16, 17, 44

Babel, Tower of, 5

Bedouin, 147

Bees, 33

Bigenerate hybrids, 96

Bimana, order of, 38

Blood, 53

Bosjesmans, 55, 79

Bourbon, Isle of, 87

Bowed legs, 47

Brain, 12

Brazil, 69

Brute and man, 19

Buddha, 52, 67, 71

Caffres, 68, 79

Cairo, 146

Çakhya-Mouni, 52

Caledonians, 103

Cartesian theory, 26

Causæ degenerationis, 90

Central America, 81

Chain of gradation, 37

Chinese, 5, 53, 78

Circassia, 147

Classification, 64, 135

Climate, 92

Clitoris, 54

Colour, 148

Consanguinity, 107

Consciousness, 12

Copts, 147

Cordilleras, 66

Craniology, 138

Crétins, 106

Crocodile, 128

Cross-breeding, 97

Danelag, 104

Degraded nations, 75

Desdemona, 63

Development of animals, 15

Dhargonis, 18

Disease, 58

Dog, 34

Earth, motion of, round the sun, 6

Egyptians, 49, 139

England, 103

Esquimaux, 15, 17, 18, 53, 54, 68, 75

Eurygnathi, 45

Évangile de l’Enfance, 64

Evolution, 122

Family of man, 42

Fellah, 147

Flinder’s Island, 97

Flood, the word, 122

Foot, 49

Forearm in Negro, 48

France, ethnology of, 104

Frugivorous man, 39

Gallic mummy, 139

God, belief in, 71

Good and evil, 23

Goths, 62

Gradation, chain of, 37

Grecian, theories, 81

Hair, colour of, 50, 52

Half-castes, 98

Hamites, 131

Harems, 101

Height, differences of, 47

Hindoostan, 40, 145

Hippopotamus, 128

History, 80

Homoïdes, 98

Host, elevation of the, 66

Hottentots, 68

Human kingdom, 10

Humanitarian considerations, 73

Hybridity, 95

Iconography, 148

Ilotes, 84

Index, the congregation of the, 6

Individual-element, 124

Intelligence of man, 12

Japanese, 5

Jesus, 64

Jews, 70, 89

Korán, 1, 141

Labrador, 101

Language, 30, 33, 142, 145

Leucous, 51

Lima, 105

Linear series, 10

Lions, 128

Man and brute, 18

Marsh fever, 59

Material substance, 12

Mathesiological order of science, 2

Mechanical theory of mind, 26

Mediæval science, 1

Medium, action of, 82

Melanesians, 57

Melanocomous, 51

Monkey-countenance, 56

Monkey-people, 18

Monogenists, 3, 80

Monotheism, 66

Moral sense, 23

Mosaic statement, 114, 141

Namaquas, 68

Natural selection, 119

Negroes, 5, 39, 44, 48, 52, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 86, 147

Neo-Platonists, the, 2

New Guinea, 40

Nicaragua, 106

Niger, 59

Nile, 68

Nile-boats, 39

Noah’s curse, 50

Norma verticalis, 136

Normans, 101, 102

Nubians, 39, 101, 147

Official science, 113

Orang-outang, 19, 20, 22, 24, 41

Orthodox ethnology, 5

Orthognathi, 45

Othello, 63

Palæontology, 131

Pali, 145

Pandora, 133

Pathological varieties, 43, 58

Pelvis, form of, 46

Penis, 54

Peruvians, 55

Phidias, 5

Physiological varieties, 43

Polygenists, 3

Praxiteles, 5

Prepuce, 54

Prognathi, 45

Prometheus, 133

Protozoa, 111

Psychology, comparative, 24, 36

Races, 65

Reason and faith, 23

“Records of Creation,” 37

Religious dogmas, 9, 65, 67, 85

Reproduction by eggs, 111

Réunion, Isle of, 88

Revealed religion, 2

” ” relations with science, 4

Revolution, 122

Riff, 89

Rosin-makers of the Landes, 39

Scandinavian antiquities, 48

Scriptures, the Holy, 1

Selection, natural, 118

Self-consciousness, 28

Semitic race, 1, 53, 65, 75, 89, 143

Sidereal kingdom, 11

Sierra Leone, 41, 93

Silurians, 103

Slaves, 84

Soudan, 45, 61

Soul in animals, 25

South Africa, 78

Spaniards, 47

Species, definition of, 108

Speech, 30

Sperma, 53

Spontaneous generation, 110, 123

Squatting attitude, 57

Stags, 85

Stirrup leather, 39

Struggle for existence, 102

Sumatran animal, 21

Sunburn, 91

Tartars, 47, 54

Thomas, St., 69

Toe, great, 39, 42

Truth, the reign of, 9, 23

Tuân, an orang-outang, 20

Turk, 147

Type, 99

Valmîki, poem of, 40

Vanikoro, 49

Variability of species, 115

Vera Cruz, 61

Vertebrate kingdom, 125

Vital competition, 128

Voice in animals, 34

Vulcan, 133

Wild man of the woods, 14

Woolly hair, 51

Xanthus, 51

Yellow Fever, 94

Zambos, 105

Zoology, 65, 85, 109

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