Indigenous Races of the Earth

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TIIE llfONOGENISTS AND trate them fully; but their result is, that tho votaries of Judaism may bo divided into two broadly-mark d and distinct types, viz: tho one abov mentioned, and another distinguished by lank aud tall fhtme, clear blue yo, very white and freckled skin, and yollow­r ddish hair. Not merely in Barbary, Arabia, Bokhara, llindostan and Ohina, l1avo numberless converts to Judaism mingled their blood with the pure Abrahamic stock; but., at several p01·iods of temporary pros­perity, and in various parts of Europe als , during the middle ages, Indo-germanic and clavonian families, adopting Mosaic institutes, freely intermix d with Israelites; and hence, through amalgamation, uriso all notic able divergencies from tho well-known standard typo. Poland seems to be tho focus of this fusion of J ows with tho German and Sarmatian races; r. 12 but some descendants of these multifarious unions, exiled from Spain, form at this day largo classes in Algeria; and, whilst they are rare in Egypt and yria, I can attest their fre­quency at Rhodes, Smyrna, and Constantinople. But, as a special instance of the false deductions that would be drawn from them (wore philology not to bo controlled by physiological criteria combined with history), while at Rhodes and myrnn. tho outdoor language of these Israelites is Greek, and at Constantinopl Turki h,- their domestic speech is Spanish, n.nd their literature in tho same tongue printed with llobrow letters ! Tho rationn.le is, they descend ii·om tho J ows driven out of Spain during the XVIth century, where they must bavo absorbed a goodly portion of Gotl1ic, or perhaps Vandal, hlood prior to their exodo. Indeed, upon surveying tho infinitude of diverse langun.gcs, habits, dresses, and contradictory institutions, contracted by tho J·ewish type in every country oC the earth, and the consequent clashings of each national synagogue upon points of reli­gious doctrine among Kltalcham~m educated in different countries, should wealth ever enn.blo Europeanized Jews to ro-pmchaso J orusa­Jom, and to collect their brethren there from all regions of the on.rth, 1 much fear tl1c result would be but a repetition of tho "confusion of Babel." Apart from identity ·of physical conformation, subject to tho exceptions above noticed, thoro could bo but one tost (and that latt rly made doubtfuJ)DlJ through which au ·h incongruous elements eould fraternize; and lik a Council at Eph sus, this Sallbcdrim m Douy DR ST. VJliO•:NT, At~tliropologiB de l'A.frigut Ji!ra119aiu, 1845, pp. 12, 15, 17-8:­Ttozv.- r, Voyage dan! Ia Rdgence d'Alger, Paris 4to, 1833; II, pp. !:ll0-36. 'fhc lellrncd author of Ge11e!i1 of the Narth m1d of Afan (1856, pp. 69, 128) supposes that the frequency of these fair-skinned ycllow-hairod Jowe in the East "haB not boon mentioned by any writer." Hero nrc two witnesses in the mcunwhilo. Gt 3 D•mrHNRAND (Mt!deci11e el Ilygiane de3 Arabes, Paris, 1850; 11. 813, note), ou ohflnges iu Oiroumoi~iou. T II E P 0 L Y C EN IS T S. 5RI would soon dissolve in upron.r, n.ffording to Gentiles a spectacle similar to, and edifying n.s, that of tho Oouvonticlc of Dordrocht: "Dordrachi Synod us nodus. horus integer roger. Convcntus vcntus, Sossio stramcn, Amen." Very singular is it, novcrthcloss, that tho people whose xenolasia, or hatred to foreigners, has been so insti nctivo since their post-Baby­lonian history, should have become in language tho most cosmopo­litn. n. Thus Josephus says, that they who learned many tonguct> wcro not esteemed in Judea; and Origen testifies that, in his time, the J cws did not trouble themselves about 0 recians or their tenets. In tho Mislma, Jewish children aro forbidden to acquire Grcok.6: 4 "The pastille, annexed to the text of the Misnah, contains a maledic­tion, pronounced against him who keeps a hog, or teaches !tis son Greek; as if it was equally impure to feed n.n uuclcan beast, and to give men a good education:" but exile forced the Rabbis to relax such inhibitions, during the 11th century, after R olomon of Bar­celona · and now it would be difficult to define Israelitisb character­istics ~oro aptly than by "J udaismus polyglottus," did not the ori­ginal Abrahamic type,-owing to a rccogn~zod ~aw in breeding, th~t the many, effacing by degt"ees tho few, mvana.bly return to thCI.r not"ma.l physique-vindicate its right to be cn.lled the purest, ccetem paribus, of all nations upon earth. . Again, among Shomitish examples, there are multitudes of pure­blooded Arabs in Affghanistan and Bokhara, few of whom except their Moolahs preserve their Arabian dialect; ~1 6 but have adopted the alien idioms of the country, whilst pr serving their Arabic phy­sique durino- about 1000 years. In Asia, th se metamorphoses of tono-uc cou;led with preservation of typo arc innumerable. There arc bwldte Kalmuks (Tclcnggout) in Sibcrin., whose physiognomy it> wholly Mongol: but speaking 'rurkish, they arc evidently a ~on~o­lian famiJy which, losing its own tong~e, h~s adopted a Ttu:k1sh dHt­lect. 6IG If one wet·e to attempt a spoCJficattOn of the ltybnd gt·adn-m J3ASNAOE, pp. 405, 608-9. A very singular question, bearing upon ~muiosoopy, iij a8kcd in the old Tal111ud ( Scltabba;; ), viz. : "Quare aunt o~pita Dllbyl_omorum rotund11 [McGeLGiLOTt] ?"-Jou. J3uxTOitl"l r., Lexicon Olwldaicum 7.atm. tl Rabbm., 1629, p. 1435. The fnot. is (&upra, Chap. II, Jigs. 39, 40), they ar~ round. m KnANIKOVV, IJokharo, its Amir aud People, trnnsl. De Dodo, London, 8vo., 1845; pp. 67-80 : _ MALCOLM, Jfi.•tory of Per#ia, London, 4to., 1815; p. 277 :-~1oitnm, Stcon~ Jot•r­my t!trottgll Persia, London, 4to., 1818 ; i. pp. 4i-8. On tho flb snnhty of Jews bomg t_lic ancestors of the Tadjiks of Dokharfl, or the Pushtnnch of Co.bul, read KENNEDY, Qtmttoll of the 8u oud _(;ost Tribe& of brael, London, 8vo, 1855, p. 51.. . .. 6t& KL~:Ro-rn, Jfagozi11 A&iatigue, No. I. :-Sec all kinds of sumlar transpos1t10ns between race and tongno in DEsMOULtNs, pa~&im.