Book of Races and Peoples
HOW MAN DIFFERS FROM OTHER ANIMALS
MAN AND THE HUMAN FAMILY
MAN’S ORIGIN AND PRIMEVAL HOME
OLDEST EXTANT REMAINS OF THE HUMAN RACE
CHART OF MAN’S ADVANCEMENT THROUGH THE AGES:
(1) Dawn Stone Age
(2) Old Stone Age
(3) New Stone Age
(4) Bronze Age
(5) Early Iron Age
(6) Late Iron Age
(7) Age of Letters
HOW THE RACES ARE CLASSIFIED
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RACE CHARACTERISTICS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE RACES
DICTIONARY OF THE HISTORICAL RACE GROUPS
COMPARATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF RACES AND PEOPLES
RACE TYPES OF WOMANKIND THE WORLD OVER
| CHINESE (Yellow) | JAPANESE (Yellow) | SIAMESE (Yellow) | BURMESE (Yellow) |
| MAORI (Brown) | SAMOAN (Brown) | JAVANESE (Brown) | SIBERIAN (Yellow) |
| ARABIAN (White) | EGYPTIAN (White) | BERBER (White) | NUBIAN (Black) |
| INDIAN (Red) | ESKIMO (Red) | SUDANESE (Black) | ZULU (Black) |
BOOK OF RACES AND PEOPLES
Man, though a member of the animal kingdom, is so superior and distinctive that he must be set entirely apart for special consideration. The branches of knowledge or science, concerning his nature, origin and development are of the highest importance to us because of their relation to our very selves as part of the great family of Mankind. Strictly speaking, there can be but one science of man—Anthropology—but the various parts of this supreme science have received various district names. (1) Man as an animal belongs to Biology and Zoology; (2) his structure and functions belong to Anatomy and Physiology; (3) his mind falls under Psychology; (4) the facts and theories as to his speech and language come under Philology; (5) the study of the various races, their origin, physical and mental differences, migrations, and geographical distribution, falls under Ethnology; and (6) human culture, or civilization, which includes government, social institutions, customs and usages, traditions, folklore, religion, etc., belong to Sociology. In a certain sense, Anthropology also includes History, which is the record of the doings of civilized man in the order in which they occurred; but this branch of knowledge is so vast in itself that it is usually assigned a province of its own.