The leading race in all history has been the White Race. It is proper therefore that it should have our chief attention in the study of the distribution of the species. By some writers it is called the Caucasian, by others the Japetic, and by others again the European race--all inaccurate terms, for the race never originated in the Caucasus, never descended from the mythical Japetus or Japheth, and when first it appeared on the horizon of history, its most extensive possessions and the seats of its highest culture were not in Europe, nor yet in Asia, but in Africa.
_Scheme of the European Race: South Mediterranean Branch._
{ { _Numidians_, _Getulians_, { { _Libyans_, _Maurianians_, { { _Guanches_, Berbers, Rifians, { 1. Libyan Group. { Zouaves, Kabyles, Tuareks, Tibbus, { { Ghadumes, Mzabites, _Ghanatas_, I. { { _Etruscans_, _Amorites_, Hamitic { { _Assyrians_, _Hittites_. (?) Stock. { { 2. Egyptian Group. { Copts, Fellaheen. { { { Gallas, Somalis, Danakils, { 3. East African Group. { Bedjas, Bilins, { { Afars, Khamirs.
{ { _Himyarites_, _Sabeans_, { 1. Arabian Group. { _Nabotheans_, Arabs, { { Bedawin, Ehkilis. II. { Semitic { { Amharnis, Tigris, Stock. { 2. Abyssinian Group. { Tigrinas, Gheez, { { Ethiopians, Harraras. { { 3. Chaldean Group. { Israelites, Arameans, Samaritans.
This statement may astonish you, and I know no writer who has properly emphasized the fact that the white race is geographically and historically an _African_ race. I have calculated with some care the area of its control of the three continents when their inhabitants first became known. The results are these: The white race then possessed:[49]
In Asia 2,500,000 square miles. In Europe 3,000,000 “ “ In Africa 3,500,000 “ “
These figures vindicate for the race the title I have given it--Eurafrican.
More than this: the purest and finest physical specimens of the white race always have been and _still are_ found native to African soil; and the leading nations of the race, those who have most contributed to its glory, and to the advance of the civilization of the world, either have resided in Africa or can be traced to it as their ancestral home.
_Types of the White Race._--Let us first define the characteristics, physical and mental, of the white race.