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Show 512 'rilE MONOGENIS'l'S AND The upshot is, that, in common with Gerard,33 ' another polygenist, progrcssi ve ethuology must, sooner or later, face tho question,whether primordial Europe was not inhabited by some indigenous Ew·opeans; long before the historical advance, westwards (whence'?), of those three groups of proximate races denominated Celtic, Teutonic, and Sclavonian? De Brotonne:J:J!j had prepared us for the conjecture, that the above triple migration had overlapped, as it were, a pre-existent population. Kombst and Keith Johnston 336 have beautifully illustrated the secondary formations of humanity in the British Isles; of which Wilson 337 indicates much material for inquiries into the primary. Mr. Thomas Wright,338 and other distinguished antiquaries in England, by determining the cemeteries and artistic vestiges of the Anglo-Saxon period, facilitate our apprehension of other remains to thcso anterior or posterior; while M. Alfred Maury339 suggests, to national arcbroologists, the truo processes through which to recover and harmonize multitudinous fragments of some ante-historical races of Franco. Reasoning by analogy, it would (now that we are beginning to understand better some of the ancient superpositions of immigrant, or Allophylian, races, in other continents, upon aboriginal populations of the soil) become somewhat exceptional were Europe not to present exemplifications of that which, elsewhere, is rising to the dignity of a law. The Oagots, the Ooliberts of Bas-Poitou, the Oltuatas of Majorca, the Ma1·ans of Auvergne, the Oiseliers of the duchy of Bouillon, tho Oacous of Paray, the Jews of Gevaudan, &c., whoso prolonged cxistcnco, and sometjmcs whoso historical derivation, are discussed with so much erudition by Michcl,3'o prove, that all exuviw of such unstoried races of man are, as yet, neither obliterated nor fully enumerated; even in the World's most archooo. logically-prepcnso community. Vain, at the same time, must be any effort to search for such as• IIistoire des Races Primitives de l'Europe, depuis leur formation )'USIJll'a leur rencontrt. dans Ia Gaule, Bruxellos, 12mo, 184.9; p. 889. 1136 Filiations et Migrations des Pcuples, Paris, 8vo, 1887. 836 Physical Atlas, new ed., Edinburgh, fol., 1860; Pl. 88, and pp. 109-110, "Etlmograpbic Map of Great Britain and Ireland." 11117 Arclu:eology and Preliistoric Annals of Scotland, Edinburgh 8vo 1851· pp. 168-87 695-9. ' ' ' ' .m Anglo-Saxon Antiq11ities (Memoirs of tho Ilist. Soo. of Lancashire and Cheshire), Ltverpool, 8vo, 1855; pp. 88-·9. 33~ Questions. relative.~ a l'Etlmologic Anticnne de la France, (Ex trait de 1' Annuaire do Ia So~•06t6 .Im~eno.le des Antiquaries do Franco pour 1862), Paris, 18mo, 1858; pp. 22, 40-1. . Illslolrc des Races Afaudites de la France et de l'Espagne, Paris, 8vo, 1847; 2 vola. P_a~slm. See also PniOUAnn, Nat. !Iist. of Man, 1865; I, pp. 258-7 4; for other "Abo• ·•gmes." TIIE POLYGENISTS. 513 petty relics of lost nations in the terse nomenclature or witl1in the gcogt·aphical area covered by, the Xth chapter of Genesis. N 0 ethnic jndications, in this ancient chorograph, carry us, northwards or ~estwards, beyond the coasts of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Medttcrrancan. (not even occidcntally as f~w al:! ILaly; except in the d,o~btfu.l lo~~tl?n 3~f Tarsltish, TtH.S~S,- 'l'artcssus in Spain? or 'Iars~s ~n q1hC1a? A document whwh, at every explanatory gloss and m 1ts local tendency of sentiment, betrays OhaldaJan authorshjp; and w~ose utmost antiquity ~f compilation cannot, without viol ali ng exo.gctiC~l rules, ~e fixed ~arher than Assyria's empire at tho apcgcc of 1ts m1ght-bemg, I tlnnk, a sort of cataloO'uc of Shalmanassar's or s1. m1'1 ar monarch's, satrapies-would be rebj ected, at this enlight-' ened day, a~ apochryphal, did it exhibit phenomena foreign to its lla:ural .honzon of knowledge. But it docs not. Taking its first ed1tor~lnp. at bct~con the 7th and lOth centuries n. c., its ptinciples of proJeCtiOn are m accordance with historical circumstances· which certainly were not Mosaic. ' "It is thus," observes Courtct de l'Isle,312 "that Moses could not ~av~ sp.okcn of 'l'urkish, Mongol, or Toungouse populations, which m b1s t1mc were still concealed from view in the most oriental part of Asia. The ChineAc, especially, constituted already a very ancient society, at the time to which the J.atc of the llcbrcw books may be referred; but, at no epoch whatever, do the traditions of Wcstcm Asia embrace events relating to tho Chinese." Tho Aamc touchstone is applied by this skilful polygenist to the Corroans, hyporborcans, Americans and negroes; about whom he says-" In tltc posterity ofKham [which is merely Klt?1me, Egypt] arc particularly compril:!cd the indigenous populations of the southern part of the ancient world: it is a swarthy (noir-fitre) race, which it woulu be erroneous to compound with the negro type. Everything, in fact, attests that negroes are not contained in the genealogy of Moses." If, by way of example, for eth nic superpositions of higher types ov?r an autochthonous group of races, we appeal to IIindostan, Pnchard's own chart,3' 3 together with the posthumous edition of his U\ Types of .Afankind, pp. 477-9:-BAnJCrm, Lares and Penates, OiUcia and its Govemo1·s, London, 8vo, 18ii3; pp. 210-11. 1.'hc dotcrminution of 1.'twtossus, us TaraMsfl whonoo r~pos (Kophlm, H lGngs, X, 22) woro exported, cnnnot bo decided UJrougb Zoology. DN B .LAINvrtLJ~ ( Osteograpt.ic, pp. 28-4 9) conaidors tho species to havo boon tho Pitllccua ruber of }~tbiopi!t: in which case Tarshish must havo lnin, like Ophir, down tho Hod Sea. Olr.RVAIS ( Jfammif~re~, p. 76) profors tho mogot of Bnrbnry; o.nd removes tho difficulty I suggested (op. cit. 479) of "cocks and hons," by proposing ostricltea. QuA1'1\Y.M'i:Ltfl (MI!moire am· l~ l'ays d'Op!n'r, M6m. do l'AC!Ld., Prtris, 1845, pp. 362-75) tl1inks they woropm·oque/a . 342 Tableau etlmograpliique du Genre Ilumain, Paris, 8vo, 1849; pp. 73-4, G!l. 313 Six e/hnogropliical !tfrtpa, with a almt of Lelterpreas, Lonclon, fol., 1843; Pinto 1st, "Asi~t," Nos. 10, "Abon'ginal mountain-lribea o.f India." 33 |