The Races of Man

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Excerpt from The Races of Man: And Their Geographical Distribution Last autumn, however, when after nearly five years a portion of the proof was ready, it appeared that, owing to the shattered state of his health, His Excellency F ield-marshal Count Roon was for the time unable to examine the contents of the Ethnology, and that although he intended to do so when convalescent, yet if such delay should be prejudicial to the author and the publisher, he urged an immediate publication of the work, but that in this case any mention of his name on the title-page must be omitted. Any longer delay was indeed undesirable, for the rapidity with which writings grow old, owing to the present activity of science, more especially in the province of ethnology, was painfully im pressed upon the author while his work was in the press, by the appearance of several new investigations, of which he was unable to make use. T bus in the early chapters the Mohammedan monarchy at Talifu was described as' extant and prosperous, whereas, according to the latest intelligence, the Chinese destroyed it in 1872. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.