LECTURE IV.
THE EURAFRICAN RACE; SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN BRANCH.

Contents.—The White Race. Synonyms. Properly an African Race; relative areas; purest specimens. Types of the White Race; Libyo-Teutonic type; Cymric type; Celtic type; Euscaric type. Variability of traits. Primal home of the White Race not in Asia, but in Eurafrica. Early migrations and subdivisions. North Mediterranean and South Mediterranean Branches.

A.—The South Mediterranean Branch.

I. The Hamitic Stock. Relation to Semitic. 1. The Libyan Group. Location. Peoples included. Physical appearance. The Libyan blondes: languages. Early history; European affiliations; relations to Iberian tribes; the names Iberi and Berberi. Government. Migration. The Etruscans as Libyans. Later history; present culture. Syrian Hamites and their influence. 2. The Egyptian Group. Kinship to Libyans. Physical appearance. The stone age in Egypt. Antiquity of Egyptian culture. Its influence. Physical traits. 3. The East African Group. Relations to Egypt.

II. The Semitic Stock.—First entered Arabia from Africa. 1. The Arabian Group. Early divisions and culture. The Arabs. Physical types; mental temperament; religious idealism. 2. The Abyssinian Group. Tribes included. Period of migration. Condition. 3. The Chaldean Group. Tribes included. The modern Jew.

The leading race in all history has been the White Race. It is proper therefore that it should have our chief attention in the study of the distribution of the species. By some writers it is called the Caucasian, by others the Japetic, and by others again the European race—all inaccurate terms, for the race never originated in the Caucasus, never descended from the mythical Japetus or Japheth, and when first it appeared on the horizon of history, its most extensive possessions and the seats of its highest culture were not in Europe, nor yet in Asia, but in Africa.

Scheme of the European Race: South Mediterranean Branch.

(Extinct peoples in italics.)

I. Hamitic Stock.1. Libyan Group.Numidians, Getulians, Libyans, Maurianians,, Guanches,
Berbers, Rifians, Zouaves, Kabyles, Tuareks, Tibbus,
Ghadumes, Mzabites, Ghanatas, Etruscans, Amorites,
Assyrians, Hittites. (?)
2. Egyptian Group.Copts, Fellaheen.
3. East African Group.Gallas, Somalis, Danakils, Bedjas, Bilins, Afars, Khamirs.
II. Semitic Stock.1. Arabian Group.Himyarites, Sabeans, Nabotheans, Arabs, Bedawin, Ehkilis.
2. Abyssinian Group.Amharnis, Tigris, Tigrinas, Gheez, Ethiopians, Harraras.
3. Chaldean Group.Israelites, Arameans, Samaritans.

This statement may astonish you, and I know no writer who has properly emphasized the fact that the white race is geographically and historically an African race. I have calculated with some care the area of its control of the three continents when their inhabitants first became known. The results are these: The white race then possessed:[49]