The Natural History of the Varieties of Man

by R. G. Latham

Divisions.—1. Samaritans (The Ten Tribes). 2. Jews (the tribes of Judah and Benjamin).

SAMARITANS.

Divisions.—1. Samaritans Proper. 2. Galileans.

Canonical books.—The Pentateuch.

Alphabet.—A nearer approach to the Phœnician than the Jewish, and probably an older form.

Æra.—National existence terminated A.D. 721. Since then either extinct or incorporated. Equivocal remains in the neighbourhood of Nablous.

JEWS.

Æra.—National existence terminated, A.D. 89. Since then dispersed, but not incorporated.

Physical Conformation.—Differing from that of the Arab in a. greater massiveness of frame; b. thicker lips; c. nose more frequently aquiline; d. cranium of greater capacity.

Intellectual culture.—Preeminently early, and preeminently continuous, i.e. from the time of the Prophets to that of the Rabbinical writers of the Middle Ages, and from these to the present moment; in the latter case the medium generally being languages other than the Hebrew, i.e. those of the respective countries of the different writers.