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Show G02 T II E M 0 N 0 G E N I S T 8, E T .0 • spread throughout the universo, is its origin, its preservation, and its law." 669 "There seems to be accordance upon one point. It is, that, alongside of theology, a new science is rising up, viz., 'the science o:( religions.' * * * The world is positive, because it grows old: but 1t had been credulous, insane; intoxicated with poetry and superstition; in love with that Nature which we now-a-days causo to pass through the crucible." 670 G. R. G. PmLADELPIIIA, February, 1857. 668 TltASTOUR, Caloric.- Ori9in, Matter, and Law of the U11iver1e, Now Orleans, 8vo, 1847, pp. 7-8. "Elllvo do l'Ecole polyteoniquo" himself, and a mining-Engineer of high position in Mexican and Central American localities, my friend M. Trastour undorstrmds, ns wellos the reader, thnt, absolutely unacquainted with Physics, I have no opinion whatever upon on impondernble termed "Caloric." 670 VINET, Lu Paradi8 Profane8 da I' Occident, Paris, 8vo, 1856, p. l. VAHIOUS GROUPS OF IIUMANITY. 603 CHAPTER VI. SECTION I. OOMMENTARY UPON THE PRINCIPAL DISTINCTIONS OBSERVABLE AMONG THE VARIOUS GROUPS OF HUMANITY. (With an EthnotJraphic Tableau.) DY OEO. R. OLIDDON. UNDER the above heading, I had elaborated a more diffuse argument, than in tho remaining few pages of this volume can now be submitted to tho reader. But, in the first place, the preceding chapters, by Messrs. Maury, Pulszky, Meigs, and Nott,-independontly of a good deal of matter latterly transferred, for the sake of giving it a more appropriate place, back into my own Chapter (V.)-havo already covered a vast range of ethnological inquiry; and, in tho second, our Publishers especially enjoin upon me not to let this book exceed in bulk much "above 600 pages," in order that its artistic appearance, in view of tho extra-thickness caused by our lithographic plates, should not vary greatly from that of Types of Mankind. It being taken for granted, therefore, that the reader of the present work-should he be interested in ethnology-is acquainted with the contents of our former one, I feel persuaded that, with tho facts and the bibliogt'aphical references comprised in the two, if to both he may be ploqsed to add Norris's tasteful edition (1855) of PRIOIIARD's Natu1·al llistory of Man, together with the latter's Six Ethnograpltical Maps, such reader is fully competent to make his own "Commentary" on the distinctive characteristics of the various fiftyfour races of mankind presented to his eye in the annexed Ethno .. graphic Tableau. Hence my part may properly limit itself to the continuation of a few more extracts, that generalize, in some degree, thoughts suggested by its inspection. |