The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1924
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    MAN AND HIS THREE FACES to the Mongols of Central Asia ; he differentiated Malays and North American Indians from the Mongols, proprement dits. Nowadays it is usual to use the word Mongolian in a larger sense, and the Mongolian division of humanity comprises all the yellow or red races with lank hair, speaking agglutinative or monosyllabic tongues. If then the Mongol of Central Asia stands as the prototype, we have, as members of the great Mongolian family the Sinitic, or Chinese peoples, the Malays and other Southern Mongols, the many Siberian peoples, the Japanese (who are not wholly Mongolian), the Eskimo, and the North and South American Indians. The Mongolian division of humanity being thus marked out, we may dis¬ tinguish the true Black, or Negro, and may place Bushmen and Hottentots as perhaps in some sense intermediate between the Negro and the Mongol. The large group of peoples left, allowing for certain omissions made for the sake of brevity, and with the exception of the [21]