In order to meet this objection, themonogenists have had recourse to what is called the middle theory, and to that of the cross-breeds.
Between the monogenistsand the polygenists, the question reduces itself very nearly to this: Can beings differing so much as the Europeans and the Bushmen, the Hottentot and the Australian, descend from the same ancestors?
I have been very minute as to the Griquas, but I flatter myself that this is sufficient to discard from science the assertion of Prichard, which all modernmonogenists have received with so much favour.
Having no longer any hope to prove by direct demonstrations that the distinctive characters of human races are transformations of one primitive type, the monogenists sought for indirect proofs.
Let us observe at the outset, how far the phenomena of eugenesic or non-eugenesic hybridity may affect the solution of the great question pending between the Monogenists and the Polygenists.
But what have been the bases of the monogenists and of the pentagenists in forming the five ethnological groups, which constitute the five fundamental races?
Whence have themonogenists derived the requisite perseverance and courage to impose upon their reason such continuous restraint, and to resist the testimonies of observation, science, and history?
The monogenists are thus deprived of their principal basis and their sole scientific argument.
Logically speaking, it would have been requisite to term the five fundamental races of the monogenists species, but it is easy to perceive that, for many reasons, the term species cannot be employed here in an absolute sense.
The monogenists had, strictly speaking, a right to do so without any violence to their principles; but the polygenists, who have followed their example, have sinned against logic.
The monogenists then resorted to an argumentation still more indirect.
Still there must have been a certain number of fundamental facts, which led even monogenists to deny the viability of all crossed races.
The monogenists have at first made great efforts to furnish such a demonstration, but without success.
Finally, we may conclude that when the principle of evolution is generally accepted, as it surely will be before long, the dispute between the monogenists and the polygenists will die a silent and unobserved death.
The question whether mankind consists of one or several species has of late years been much discussed by anthropologists, who are divided into the two schools of monogenists and polygenists.
The question whether mankind consists of one or several species has of late years been much agitated by anthropologists, who are divided into two schools of monogenists and polygenists.
Finally, we may conclude that when the principles of evolution are generally accepted, as they surely will be before long, the dispute between the monogenists and the polygenists will die a silent and unobserved death.
This leaves the question of man's ultimate origin completely open to speculation, and enables both monogenists and polygenists to contend for their respective views with plausible arguments, and without fear of being refuted by facts.
Now the controversy between monogenists and polygenists has turned mainly on these comparatively recent developments of secondary types.
Especially it bears on the argument, on which monogenists mainly rely, of the peopling of the earth by migration from one common centre.
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