Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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    BIscayaAn. EGYPTIAN. Dredd! me tert ee ena. | Sj eke WOOL oe oe aca ORES 6 ig eee MOIR Sem se eshashpi | ” (Shaene Now, as there are, according to Humboldt, one hundred and seventy words in common between the languages of the new and old continents, and many of these are expressive of the most primitive ideas, there is, by Dr. Young’s calculation, over. powering proof of the original connexion of the American and other human families. This completes the slight outline which I have been able to give, of the evidence for the various races of men being descended from one stock. It cannot be considered as conclusive, and there are many eminent persons who deem the opposite idea the more probable ; but I must say that, with- out the least regard to any other kind of evidence, that which physiology and philology present seems to me decidedly favourable to the idea of a single origin. Assuming that the human race is one, we are next called upon to inquire in what part of the earth it may most probably be supposed to have originated. One obvious mode of approximating to a solution of this question is to trace backward
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