The plurality of the human race

by G. Pouchet

[272] See Périer, Fragments Ethnologiques, Paris, 1857.

[273] Recherches sur l’Ethnologie de la France (Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie, vol. i, p. 1). See, also, the discussion which followed the reading of this paper (Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie, meetings of July 21 and August 4, 1859).

[274] We may remark this line is precisely perpendicular to the climateric parallels which divide France.

[275] [The standard in France is, we believe, five feet.—Editor.]

[276] Peru, 1846.

[277] Nicaragua: its People, vol. ii, p. 153, New York, 1852.

[278] Essai sur l’Inégalité des Races Humaines, Paris, 1852.

[279] Rapports du Physique et du Moral, vol. i, p. 484.

[280] M. Morel, Traité des Dégénérescences.

[281] [“All races of mankind intermix, they are fertile, producing cross-breeds, mulattoes, mestizoes, etc., which again are productive. All human races constitute, therefore, on physiological principles, but one species, which is here identical with genus humanum.” So thinks Professor Rudolph Wagner, but his arguments are not very satisfactory. He refers varieties of race in a great measure to climatic influence. See Creation of Man and Substance of the Mind (Anthrop. Rev., vol. i, p. 229).—Editor.]