Siamese, 164 _n._ Siculi, 132 Sicyon, 175 Sidon, 57 Slavs, 32, 74, 92 Socrates, 14 Sophocles, 14 Spain, 20; Arabs in, 29 Spaniards, in South America, 46, 52; independence of, 170 Sparta, 59, 175 Spartacus, 159 Spartans, 9, 40, 79 Squier, 55 _n._ St. Bartholomew’s day, 12 Strafford, Earl of, 41 Suetonius, 15 _n._ Sufis, 188 Sulla, 158 Sulpicius Severus, 197 Swabia, 79 Switzerland, 124; climate of, 144 Syria, 79 Syrians, 94, 172, 177–9 Tacitus, 5, 17 Tahitians, 154 Talmud, 195 Tatars, 146 Tchingiz, 129 _n._ Tenochtitlan, 104 Terah, 194 Teresa, St., 69 Tertiary type, 147 Tertullian, 159 Teutates, 13 Thebaid, 69 Thirty Tyrants, 20 Thucydides, 6 Thuringia, 79 Tiberius, 60 Tibetans, 80, 91, 97 Tigris, 56 Tihuanaco, 167 Tlaxcala, 159 Tocqueville, de, 72 _n._ Toledo, 29 Tonga-Tabu, 154 Tonkin, 164 Toulouse, 60 Touraine, 100 _n._ Trajan, 11, 159 Treves, 60, 197 Tribunate, the, 9 Triptolemus, 59 Tungusians, 117, 127, 133 Turanians, 128 Turkestan, 128 Turkey, 29 Turks, 29, 127–31 Tylos, 57 Tyre, 13, 57 Ulea, 143 Ulfilas, 190 Ur, 194 Urkan, 130 Uruguay, 53 Valentia, 29 Valerius Publicola, 10 Valmiki, 157 Vaqueiras, Raimbaut de, 198 Venetians, 8, 79 Venice, 60 Venus, 108 Virgil, 166 Voltaire, 5 Vrolik, 114–5 Wallachians, 29, 190 Wanikas, 125 _n._ Washington, 39 White races, definition, 146; _see also_ Europeans William III, of England, 21, 81 Xerxes, 176 Yellow races, physical and mental characteristics of, chaps. x, xii, xvi _passim_; definition, 146; _see also_ Mongols Yemen, 178 Yolofs, 180 Yo-kiao-li, 125 _n._ Yunnan, 87 Zama, battle of, 35 Zend, 201 Zeno, 14 Zenobia, 177 Zerubbabel, 194 Zingaris, 124, 195 _n._ Zita, St., 69 Zuleika, 124 PRINTED AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS LONDON & EDINBURGH ----- Footnote 1: See my Introduction to Count Gobineau’s “Renaissance” (Heinemann). Footnote 2: This dedication and the following preface apply to the whole work, of which the present volume contains the first book. The remaining books are occupied by a detailed examination of the civilizations mentioned at the end of this volume, and it is of these as well as the present book that the author is thinking, in his preface, when speaking of his imitators. A few passages in the dedication that relate exclusively to these books have been omitted.—Tr. Footnote 3: Amédée Thierry, _La Gaule sous l’administration romaine_, vol. i, p. 244. Footnote 4: By C. F. Weber, _Lucani Pharsalia_ (Leipzig, 1828), vol. i, pp. 122–3, _note_. Footnote 5: Prichard, “Natural History of Man.” Dr. Martius is still more explicit. _Cf._ Martius and Spix, _Reise in Brasilien_, vol. i, pp. 379–80. Footnote 6: Balzac, _Lettre à madame la duchesse de Montausier_.