_Psychical or Spiritual Character_, viz:-- Attributes generally equally developed. Moderately mental; not originative, or inventive, but speculative; roving, predatory, revengeful, and sensual. Warlike and highly destructive. _Temperament._--Callous. _Physical Character._--Sub-medium sensibility; dark skin, more or less red, or of a copper-color tinge; hair black, straight, and strong; face broad, immediately under the eyes; high cheek-bones; nose prominent and distinct, particularly in profile; mouth and chin, European. VARIETIES. Most of the Tartar and Arabian tribes, and the whole of the American Indians, unless those mentioned in the second species should be excepted. THE CANAANITIC SPECIES. _Psychical or Spiritual Character_, viz:-- Attributes equally undeveloped. Inferiorly mental; not originative, inventive, or speculative; roving, revengeful, predatory, and highly sensual; warlike and destructive. _Temperament._--Sluggish. _Physical Character._--Sluggish sensibility, approaching to torpor; dark or black skin; hair black, generally woolly; skull compressed on the sides, narrow at the forehead, which slants backwards; cheek-bones very prominent; jaws projecting; teeth oblique, and chin retreating, forming a muzzle-shaped profile; nose broad, flat, and confused with the face; eyes prominent; lips thick. VARIETIES. The Negroes of Central Africa, Hottentots, Cafirs, Australasian Negroes, &c.; and probably the Malays, &c. _Nat. Hist. of Man_, p. 73 _et passim_. If the reader will carefully examine the psychical characteristics of these groups, as given in the above extract, he will find them to accord better with the whole of Mr. Gobineau's theories, than Mr. Gobineau's own classification.--H. [168] It is probably a typographical error, that makes Mr. Flourens (_Eloge de Blumenbach_, p. 11) say that the Polynesian race was "a mixture of two others, the _Caucasian_ and the Mongolian." The Black and the Mongolian is undoubtedly what the learned Academician wished to say. [169] This may be so in our eyes. It is natural for us to think those the most pleasing in appearance, that closest resemble our own type. But were an African to institute a comparative scale of beauty, would he not place his own race highest, and declare that "all races rose in the scale of beauty in proportion to the perfectness of the development" of African features? I think it extremely probable--nay, positively certain.