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Odour. Origin of the Colour of the Skin. Colour of the Hair. Section
of the Hair. Matting of the Hair. Hair on the Body.

III.-Clothing and Shelter.

Clothing of the Feet. Screens of Foliage. Leaf Huts.
Arched Vaulting.

Sense of Modesty. Materials of Clothing.
Stone Buildings.

Blow Pipes. Arrow Poisons. Slings.

Phoenicians and

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VI.-Influence of Commerce on the Local Distribution of Nations. Precious

Metals. Cod Fishery, Fur-bearing Animals. Spices. Logwood. Slave

Trade. Tin. Amber.

VII.-Marriage and Paternal Authority. Age of Marriage. Unchastity.
Polygamy. Polyandry. Incest. Wife Stealing. Purchase of Brides.
Hetarism. Terms expressive of Relationship. Gyneocracy. Heirship of
Nephews. Kissing.

VIII.-Social Germs. Vendetta. Weregild. Ideas of Property. Dignity
of Chiefs. Slavery. Caste. Nobility.

IX.-Religious Impulses in Uncivilized Nations. Man's Need of Causality.

Stone Worship. Tree Worship. Animal Worship. Worship of Water, the

Sun, and the Forces of Nature. Idea of Immortality. Ancestor Worship.

XII.-Dualistic Religions. Good and Evil Powers. Zoroaster. Ormuzd
and Ahriman. Resurrection of the Dead. Morality.

Polytheistic Rudiments.

Former Crudeness

XIV.-Doctrines of Christianity. Doctrine of Preexistence in the Old
Testament. Benign Providence. The Lord's Prayer. Morality. Christianity
and Buddhism.

XV.-Islam. Mohammed.
Laws. Doctrine of Election.

The Koran. Monotheistic Purism. Moral
Extension.

XVI.-The Zone of the Founders of Religions.
Influence of Food. Influence of the Desert.

Terrors of Nature.

THE RACES OF MANKIND.

Physical Characters. Language. Abode. Implements. Mental Endow-
ments. Customs. Causes of their Extinction.

Physical Characters.
Mincopies, Semangs).
Fijians.

Australian and Asiatic Group (Alfurs, Negritoes,

Mental Endowments.

Implements and Customs.

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Race.

IV.-Mongoloid Nations in the North of the Old World. Ural-Altaic

(a) Tungus Branch. (6) Mongolian Branch (Eastern Mongolian,
Kalmuck, Buriat, Hazara). (c) Turkish Branch (Uighur, Uzbek, Osmanli,
Yakut, Turcoman, Nogay, Basian, Kumuk, Karakalpak, Kirghiz). (d) Finnish
Branch, Ugrian Division (Ostiak, Voguls, Magyar). Bulgarian Division.
Permian Division. True Finnish Division (Suomi, Lapps). (e) Samoyed
Branch.

V.-Northern Asiatics of Doubtful Position. Yenesei-Ostiak. Yukagiri.

VI.-The Tribes of Behring's Straits. Physical Characters. (a) Kamtskadals.
(b) Koriak and Tshuktshi. (c) Namollo and Eskimo. (d) Aleutian.
(e) Thlinkite and Vancouver Tribes.

VII.-Aborigines of America. Migration from Asia by way of Behring's
Straits. Mongoloid Racial Characters. Linguistic Relation to the Altaic

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Type. Mongolian Customs. Comparison of the New and the Old World.
(a) The Hunting Tribes in the Northern Continent (Kenay and Athabask,
Algonkin, Iroquois, Dahcota, South-eastern and South-western Group).
(b) South American Hunting Tribes (Tupi, Guaycuru, Gês, Cren, Ara-
wak, Carib). Comparison of Northern and Southern Hunting Tribes.
Moundbuilders. Copper Mines. De Sotos' Military Expedition. (c) The
Civilized Nations of North America (Sonora Languages. Cibola, Pueblo,
Nahualtec, Maya, Quiché.) The Civilized Nations of South America
(Chibcha, Quichua, Yunca, Araucanian, Patagonian). Indigenous Origin
of American Culture. Comparison of the Civilizations of the Northern and
Southern Continents.

IV. DRAVIDA PORULATION OF WESTERN INDIA.

Physical Characters. Dwarf Nations.

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Hottentot Language. Hottentot

Physical Characters. I. Bantu Negroes. Suaheli, Betchuana, Kaffirs,
Inland Tribes, Bunda Nations, Congo Negroes.

II.-Soudan Negroes. (Ibo, Nuffi, Ewhe, Otshi). Ivory and Pepper Coast.
Mandingo. Joloffer. Sererer. Fulbe. Sourhay. Hausa. Kanuri. Téda
(Tibbu) not Negroes. Bagrimma. Maba. Nile Tribes. Fundi. Nobah.
Africa as a Residence. Civilization of the Bantu and Soudan Negroes.

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