The Archaian white races / by J.S. Stuart Glennie.

  • Stuart-Glennie, John S.
Date:
[1887]
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Credit: The Archaian white races / by J.S. Stuart Glennie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II. SEMITIC. III. ARYAN. Hebrew.^ 2. Ham. I. Shem. 3. Yapheth. Mendaite.® 2. Yamen. I. Schoum. 3. Yapheth. Iranian.^ Persian.* 2. Toura. 2. Tour. 3. Sairima 3. Seim. I. Airya. i. Eradj. The figures attached to the Races indicate the rank of each according to the notions of the people making the classifica- tion ; each people, of course, putting its own Race in the first rank; but Semites and Aryans agreeing, it will be observed, in severally ranking the non-Semitic and non-Aryan Race next to themselves. The linear succession of the Races, as I have above arranged them, indicates at once what I take to be equivalent names, and the order of the historical pre- dominance of the Races thus designated—an order, it will be remarked, which accords with that dictated by national vanity only in the Egyptian and Chaldean columns. But several questions arise, first of all, with reference to the ethnological relations of the Egyptians and Chaldeans ; and then, with respect to that equivalency of names which is implied by the order in which I have above indicated the respective Kinship- traditions of the Archaian, Semitic, and Aryan Races. 2. First as to the Rotou, the name by which the Egyptians designated themselves—does this name connote a non- Semitic and non-Aryan White Race } One may take it for granted that this question has been now conclusively answered in the affirmative by an ethnological examination of the ancient Egyptians themselves in their mummies, and of contemporary portraits of them in sculpture and fresco; ^ Abbas Katina, whom the author of the History of Moses of Khor’ni made his guide for the earlier ages of Armenia. See Hist. Armen, lib. i. c. 5, p. 16 (Ed. Whiston); p. 31 (Ed. Le Vaillant de Florival). ' See Genesis, v. 32 ; vii. 13 ; ix. 18 ; and x. i. ^ See Norberg, Cod. Nasar., t. i. p. 96 ^ See De Harlez, Avesta, Yescht xiii. 143. And for proof that the myth of the three Brothers belongs to the cycle of traditions antecedent to the first putting- together of the books of the Zend-Avesta (or rather Avesta-Zend) see t. iii. p. 4. * See Spiegel, Eranische Alterthumskunde, t. i. p. 554. * ‘ The form of the skull, as well as the proportibns of the several parts of t body, as these have been determined from examination of a great number of