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Show Ill I LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. PAGE -.&planation1. PLATE I.-Frontispiece, colored. "Ancient Egyptian Scribe. Vth Dynasty.- M.a.RIETTE's Discoveries, 1852-4," (Louvre Museum.) ........ .... 111 II.- Fig. 1. "Ancient Scribe (ante, Pl. I)-Profi le.''-Fig. 2. "Same bend altered in to n. modern Fellah.''.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . 111 III.- Fi.g . 1. "Sepa.'' } 2 .. N , (Louvre Museum) .......................... 110 F1g. . can. IV.-" Skhcm-kn," (Louvre Museum) .......•.....................•.. 110 V.- Fig. 1. "Pnhou-er-nowre.'' } (L M ) 110 Fig. 2. "Skhcm-kn. Profile.'' ouvre useum · · · · · · · · · '· · · · VI. -Egyptian bend (Louvre Museum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 111 VII.-"Mcn-kn-her- Vth Dynasty," (Louvre Museum) ................. 112 VIII.- Fig. I. "Aahmes-nofre-nri.''} (B r M ) { ................ 116 Fig. 2. "Nefer-hetep I.'' er ID uscum •..•.... ... ..... 113 IX.- Fig. 1. "Etruscan Vase.'' } (B "t' h M ) 190 Figs. 2, 3, 4. "Etruscan drinking-jars.'' rJ IS useum · · · · .. ETBNOORArmc T.&Df,EAU.-" Specimens of Vo.rious Races of Mnnkind.'' ....... 618 CBART.-" Illu~trative of the Geogrn phi cal distribution of Monkeys, in their relation to that of some inferior Types of Men.''.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 641 (xxiv) ~ • J. t INDIGENOUS RACES or TilE EARTH. CIIAPTER I. ON TJTE DISTRIBUTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF TONGUES,- TJTEIR RELATION TO THE GEOGRAPJIICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RACES; .AND ON TJIE INDUCTIONS WIIICJI MAY BE DRAWN FROM TJIESE RELATIONS. DY ALFJtED MAURY, Librarian of tl1t l'rench Imperia! Institute, &cretaMJ·Gtntral of tht SOOJJ!i'I'J1 DE Off.OORAPJllE DE PARIS. (OOMI<Ul'!IOATEO TO OR. !'!OTT AND MR. OL!ODON.) SECTION I. AuTIIORS who have occupied themselves with the comparison of languages have boon inclined sometimes not to distinguish, in the grammar, that which belongs to the very constitution of speech (itself nothing else than the constitution of the human mind), and that which appertains to such or to such another given form of utterance. It is here, however, that an important distinction should be made: because, if the difference between generic and specific characters be not perceived, a man is incapable of analysis; and instead of maki11g a classification he loses himself in a synthesis vague and indefinite. Languages are organisms that arc al1 conceived upon the same plan,-one might almost say, upon tho same skeleton, ;vhich, in their development and their composition, follow fixed laws: inasmuch ns these laws are tho con cquence of this organism itself. But, along-side of this identity in the peocedure, each family of tongues has its own special evolution, and its own destinies. They all possess among (25) |