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Show 86 ON TilE DTS'l'RIDUTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF TONGUES. already possess greater affinity. They become extinct and disappear: but that is all. The work of creation on our globe is terminated; and all the invisible dynamics which the Creator set in motion, in order to people this physical and moral world may indeed preserve that which they have produced; but l' age du ~etour for them has arrived. They have become powerless and sterile for creations that arc reserved, without doubt, for other worlds. A.M. PARIS, Library of the Institute-April, 1856. ICONOGRAPIIIC RESEARCITES. CHAPTER II. ICONOGRAPHIC RESEARCHES ON HUMAN RACES AND TITEIR ART ; BY FRANCIS PULSZKY. "Todd a dul'Va Scytbtl.t a Tiberishez, !Ia A nn.gy R6ma fiu.t Dosphorus oblihez Dnrln.ng Mazon 11mott i\ Capitolium 'S itt uj' R6mn. omelkedik." "Pttt tl1e rude Scythiatl 011 the Tiber, And the son of great Rome on the Cimm1rian coa8t, !l'l1ere the Capitol will btcotne a den, And l1ere rilles a new Rome." (DERZSl!lNYI.) 87 Letter to Mr. Geo. R. Gliddon, and Dr. J. 0. Nott, on the Races of Men and their Art. MY DEAR SIRS: Reading your" TYPES OF MANKIND," equally valuable for conscientious research and sound criticism, I could not but be pleased with your felicitous idea of supporting ethnological propositions by the testimony of copious Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Chinese monuments, in order to prove the constancy of national types, during the historical period of antiquity, by authentic representations. Blumenbach and Prichard only cursorily referred to ancient monuments; your publication was the first 1 to call Archroology into the witness-box for cross-examination in the question of races and • If our work, published early in 181i4, may tu.ke credit for luning somewhat extended and popularized this method of rosoarch, tho road hacl boon widely opened, ton years previously by MowroN (Crania ./Egyptiaca, Philnda., 1844). Subsequently to Molt'I.'ON, the same mothotl was applied with singular felicity by M. CounTn D~1 L'lsr.E (Tableau ethnographique dtt Gmre Ilumain; 8vo., Paris, 1849); but, as mentioned in "Types," (P· 724,) I was not aware of M. CouRTET's priority until the text of our book was entirely stereotyped. His volume has become Ro rat·e, that I was unable to procure a copy during my Jato stay o.t Pnris, 1854-o. A portion, howovcr, was originally published under tho title of "Iconographic des races humaines," in tho Ill!Mlratio,, Oct. and Nov., 1847: and another formed part of tho interesting discussions of th~ Societl Etlmologique de Pari8, on the "Distinctive Chnraotcristics of the White and of tho lllaok races;" Slunce du 25 Juin, 1847. (Sec the Bulletin of that Society, pnrent of those in London and Now York, Annt!e 1847, ~rome lr, pp. 181-206, and 284.) G. R. G. |