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Identifier: philippinelifein00lero (find matches)
Title: Philippine life in town and country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: LeRoy, James A. (James Alfred), 1875-1909
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ories of thi? easy method of classi-fication, there is still something about it suf-ficiently logical to forbid its entire rejection.The brown men of the Pacific defy identificationwith the pure Mongolian type of the mainland,quite as their own diversities of colour and con-dition lend themselves to varying conjectures asto racial crosses by which they may have beenproduced. The Polynesian, ranging farther east-ward over the Pacific, is not to be confused withthe typical Malay. Indonesian/ a term employed by mostwriters to hint at a possible strain of Caucasianblood found in some of the lighter-coloured andlarger-bodied of these island peoples, is as yetlittle more than an indication of how the anthro-pologist is puzzled in his endeavour to untanglethe racial knots of the Pacific and to classify thepeoples even on broad general lines. All theseelements of difficulty, it would seem, enter intothe problem in the Philippine Islands. Whetherthe Malay is only a more divergent strain of the
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A MARKET WOMAN WITH A BASKET OF MANGOES ON HER HEAD Racial Origins and Blends 21 Mongolian family, differentiated by centuries ofexistence on the shores and in the islands of thegreat ocean, or represents again a primitive blendof Mongolian and Caucasian (in some, at least,of his subdivisions) in the remote days of earlyhuman life on the greatest of continents, arebroader questions underlying our general *Ori-ental problem of to-day, but a solution of whichwould be as yet mere hazard. In their littlesharp-prowed and outriggered craft, the Malaysincessantly pressed from outpost to outpost inthe ocean, during how many centuries we maynot say, though their migrations were still goingon when what we conceited newcomers call thehistorical period began in the Far East.Sweeping up from the south-west, in successiveand probably quite continuous waves, theypeopled the Philippines. The earlier, bolderwanderers struck still farther north, and thereseems every reason for identifying the people of

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