"He prayeth best who loveth best tint, or inclining to brown; red cheeks; hair black, or of the various lighter colours, abundant, and more or less curled or waving; irides dark in those of brown skin; light blue, grey, or greenish, in the fair or rosy complexioned; large cranium with small face, the upper and anterior regions of the former particularly developed, and the CAUCASIAN. latter falling perpendicularly under them; face oval and straight, with features distinct from each other; expanded forehead, narrow and rather aquiline nose, and small mouth; front teeth of both jaws perpendicular; lips, particularly the lower, gently turned out; chin full, rounded, and bearded. In this type the moral feelings and intellectual powers are most energetic, being susceptible of the highest development and culture. It includes all the ancient and modern Europeans, except the Laplanders and the rest of the Finnish race. The sub-divisions, or varieties of this type are-the Circassian, or true Caucasian; the Syro-Arabian : Hindoo, Celtic, Greciar, Italian, German, Slavonic, &c., and Gypsies, originally from the banks of the Indus, from whence they have wandered over Europe. |