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Origin of the White Ulan, | w
There may bo remains of Stone Ago whites, n.'
but there aro no certain remains of white sav- - fir
ages of a low order. Wo may well doubt if
there ever wero any white savages; it is moro- , 31
uKeiy tnac tno wmco men were developed
late iu tho race-history of the world from an «<'j
cestors already far on in civilisation ; in fact,-,;
tlmt this civilisation, with its improved supply -s - B>J
of food, its better housing and clothing, ita <' fir
higher intellectuality, was ono main factor in - S/A'
the development of tho white type. Here, how-
over, it must ho remembered that thcro is not a
white race in tho sense in which there is a Carib "w5 1'
race or an Andaman race. It includes several- 1 tw
race-types ; and oven the same languages, such. '
as English or German, may be spoken by men '- fid
as blonde as Danes or as dark as Sicilians ' («
The fair-haired Scandinavian type lias some- -Sgg
thing of the dcflnitcucss of a true race ; but as /
one travels south thcro appear, not well- defined. XW
sub-races, but darkening gradations of bcwil-
dering complexity. Tho most reasonable ' «£
attempt to solve this intricate problem is v'
Professor Huxley's view that the white raco is ! ffifi
mado up of fair-whites of the Northern or yfwi
Scandinavian type and dark-whites, who aro -I rag
tho result of ages of mixture between thcYair- j /ft®
whites and tho darker nations, though it
perhaps hardly prudent to limit these dark an- vl
cestors toone variety, ns he does. .J |jg
If now wc cannot trace the white man down AbmS
to the low level of primitive savagery, ncitkerfjflya
can we nnsign to him tho great upward movo- IflfjfBj
ment by which the barbarian pnssod intonmufi
civilisation. It is not to tho Aryan of Persia.
nor to the Semitic of Syria tlmt tho art
writing belongs which brought on tlie now cra'SnSn
of culture, 'ino Egyptian, \riioso hieroglyphics ajgSfl
may be traced passing from pitcturc intb'JBjjaf
alphabet, had his race allies in people of North aMm
Africa, especially the Berbers of tho north ffireaS
coast— people . whom no elasticity of
ethnologic system would bring into tho wldto'iSSl
race. Of thc raco type of tho old-Babylonians
who shaped likewise rude pictures into wcdge-dK»fl
phonetic signs, wc know but little as yot ; at fjnffij
any rate, their speech una not Aryan, and thexnffigG
comparisons of Lcnormnnt and Sayco hnvaffijsSw
given some ground for connecting it with thfrvram
Turanian language, belonging to a group otSreBB
nations of whom one, the Chinese, had ihtjljKS
remote antiquity worked ont a civilisation oF3«8
which thodovclopmcntof nn imperfect phonotf(?7j$CQ
writing formed part. If the great mid(Ue<u$ll
move in'culture was made, not by any brahchiS
of the white raco, but hy races nowronrescnted,®
by the Egyptian and tlie Chinese, it is not lenrojf|
cleav that these nations came to the limit
their developing power. Tho white races hadiflgaB
iq remote antiquity risen high in barbariatj&nf
culture when their contact with the darker flswff
nations who invented writing opened to tiionkJflgSS
new intellectual paths. The Greeks found hDBBmS
the ancient Egyptian theology the gods of thofflnH
four elements, but they transferred
thought from theology to philosophy, andiB
developed from it the theory of elements und-'JftB
atoms which is tho basis of modern chemistry; 8hm$
Thoy found tho Babylonians building terracod-lBga
temples to tho seven planets in the order' oflMBB!
their periods, and this conception again tlicyTO&e
transferred from religion to science, founding Mm!
ou it tho doctrine of planet spheres which greyJBHjS
into mathematical astronomy. It may modor-MSK
ate our somewhat over-weening of our powersijK
to _ remember that . the white races rannofcjSflnj
claim to be the original creators of literature «8h£
and science, but from. remote antiquity thcy'38®
began to show the. combined power of
them dominant among mankind.-
— Nature. /;9bB|
An anxious father consulted u seer to find out!
possible the destiny of his three boys. To ldsgTcat#tlfHj
dismay tho Ulan of knowledge declared : "QaajMMGj
will bo a murderer, another a falsifier, and thewn!
third a pauper living on tho town." As tho gooctoff&S
father began to bewail his lot the Beer-adacderairo
Do not mourn; thoso nro tho common. lota oCtmns
men. Your'flrstson will bo a doctor, tho BGCond&ynigra
lawyer, and the third a country clergyman.'" .
Ax tho b ea- shore t "Wall," says a bather- to taxJjmt,
oldgenoral, "what do you think of ALB;, whom/graf,
1 introduced to you f "An oxoollont man, but&ggs;
without memory. I have already dceoribcu ton/snnf
Bamo battle to him twenty times without
having noticed it." Tho bather moves on. and: JrStfl
meeting M.B., says: "Well; what do you think
of thogcncrair A very brave man, but ho ha& 3yJ|
no memory. Hokoops telling mo tbO:sam& story. <J|3M
In. short, ho is an old bore." /3dm
"What do you moan by such c&rolosness 1 oz-ifilg
claimed u man who entered adruggLst's shop In
terribly excited manner, " What do you mean by Vb89
such carelessness, I say? You sold my boy laudalvlfii
nuin forparcgorlo, and it was rich;- by tho luaklosv Jtfii
chance that tlio baby isn't nowlying dead ; ye s. jffli
Blr, dead— murdered by your criminal careless-
ncss." " What's thatr Bald tha druggist, looking-/ H
up.from his derlc. " I sold you. laudanum instead '.99
of paregoric 1 Mdroy 1 could I have been so >H
forgetful? Ofcourso you'll pay the difference la
A Fount vi kg Soul.— "Yes." Baldtheman In tho w
slouch hut, " (Jhurlcy Figsbys tlio most forgiving "HI
feller ycu ever seed. Charley's rnthcr nuidk now jjH|
and then, but. Lord love ycr, it's ovor in a minuto 'h
llo don't hold temper no moro'n a babby. Why, >H
t'other day he got up a troo 'bout suthin 05 ruthor, jfi
nn ho swore at mo uku a Mississippi Itiversteam- n
boat mate, and whoa ho got through swcorin'ho 9
jest lacked me outer door and flung a club at me
artcrwardu llut, bless ycr. dldu'tlaat no time 't .9
all. Next time i eaw Charloy ho was just as gdod <9
as over ; ho shook hands with mo and p-nnttod away
jcat as though HQtUlu' hadn't happened/4 '.S
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