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THE author of this treatise divides mankind into five races, distinguished by the colour of the skin—the white, yellow, black, brown, and red races—which he holds to be more reliable than either craniological character or linguistic affinities; adducing against the former, or Retzius' classification, the observation of Brandt that in examining the crania of a large number of beavers he found great variations to exist; whilst in regard to the classification founded on language, admitting that the consideration of language may prove of great service to ethnology, there is yet no identity between the two sciences. He estimates the members belonging to the several great religions of the world as follows: Christianity 380,000,000, Mahommedanism 100,000,000, Buddhism 500,000,000, Brahmanism 100,000,000, other religions 120,000,000, making a total population for the world of 1,200,000,000. M. D'Halloy is unusually orthodox in his opinions, and defends Scriptural authority with more energy than of late years has been customary with anthropological savants.
Des Races Humaines ou Eléments D'Ethnographie.
Par J. J. D'Omalius D'Halloy. Pp. 157. 1869. (Williams and Norgate.)
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Des Races Humaines ou Eléments D'Ethnographie . Nature 1, 651 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001651a0
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