already possess greater affinity. They become extinct and disappear:
but that is all. The work of creation on our globe is
terminated; and all the invisible dynamics which the Creator set
in motion, in order to people this physical and moral world, may
indeed preserve that which they have produced; hut l'âge du retour
for them has arrived. They have become powerless and sterile
for creations that are reserved, without doubt, for other worlds.
A. M.
Paris, Library of the Institute — April, 1856.
CHAPTER I I.
I C O N O G E A P H I C R E S E A R C H E S
ON HUMAN RACES AND THEIR ART ;
BY ERANOIS PULSZKY.
“ Tedd à durya Scythàt à Tiberishez, és
A nagy Róma fiàt Bosphorus oblihez
Barlang lészen amott à Capitolium
’S itt uj’ Róm-a emelkedik.”
“ Put the rude Scythian on the Tiber,
And the son of great Rome on the Cimmerian coast,
There the Capitol will become a den,
And here rises a new Rome.” (B e r z s e n y i .)
Letter to Mr. Creo. R. Crliddon, and Dr. J. 0. Nott, on the Races of
Men and their Art.
M y D ear S i r s :
Reading your “ T y p e s o f M a n k in d ,” equally valuable for conscientious
research and sound criticism, I could not but he pleased with
your felicitous idea of supporting ethnological propositions by the
testimony of copious Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, and Chinese
monuments, in order to prove the constancy of national types,
during the historical period of antiquity, by authentic representa^
tions. Blumenhach and Prichard only cursorily referred to ancient
monuments; your publication was the first1 to call Archseology into
the Witness-box for cross-examination in the question of races and
1 If our wort, published early in 1854, may take credit for having somewhat extended
and popularized this method of research, the road had been widely opened, ten years previously
by M o rto n ( Crania Mgypliaca, Philada., 1844). Subsequently to M o r to n , the
same method was applied with singular felicity by M . Co u r t e t d e l ’I s i e (Tableau elhno-
graphique du Genre Sumain; 8vo., Paris, 1849); but, as mentioned in “ Types,” (p. 724,) I
was not aware of M . Co d r t e t ’s priority until the text of our book was entirely stereotyped.
is volume has become so rare, that I was unable to procure a copy during my late stay
a Paris, 1854-5. A portion, however, was originally published under the title of § Icono-
grap le des races huraaines,” in the Illustration, Oct. and Nov., 1847: and another formed
part of the interesting discussions of the Société Ethnologique de Paris, on the “ Distinctive
aractenstios of the White and of the Black races;” Séance du 25 Juin, 1847. (See the
“ M | I that Society, parent of those in London and New York, Annie 1847, Tome lr,
PP. 181-206, and 284.) G. R. G.