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Blumenbach makes five races; Kant, three. Blumenbach's scale of dignity may / be thus figured: --
/ 1. Caucasian or European.
/ 2. Malay = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 2. American
/ 3. Negro = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 3. Mongolian, Asiatic
There was, I conceive, one great Iapetic original of language, under which / Greek, Latin, and other European dialects, and, perhaps, Sanscrit, range as / species. The Iapetic race, [Greek: Iaones]; separated into two branches; / one, with a tendency to migrate south-west, -- Greeks, Italians, &c.; and the / other north-west, -- Goths, Germans, Swedes, &c. The Hebrew is Semitic.
Hebrew, in point of force and purity, seems at its height in Isaiah. It is / most corrupt in Daniel, and not much less so in Ecclesiastes; which I / cannot believe to have been actually composed by Solomon, but rather / suppose to have been so attributed by the Jews, in their passion for / ascribing all works of that sort to their _grand monurque_.