Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1889 — The Human Family. [ARTICLE]

The Human Family.

The human family living to-daj consists of about 1,450,0,0,000 individuals. In Asia, whore man was firs) jpdanted, there aro now about 800,000,000, on an average 120 to thq squaro averaging 100 to the square mile. In Africa there aro 210,000,(W0. ]q America, North and South, there ar* 440,-000,000, relatively thinly scattered and recent. In the islands, largo and small, probably 10,000,000. The ex. tremes of the white and black are at five to three, the remaining 700,000,000 intermediate brown and tawny. Of the race 500,000,000 aro clothed, that is wear garments of some kind and live in houses partly furnished with the appointments of civilization) 700,000,000 are semi-clothed, living in huts and caves with no furnshings; 250,000,000, are practically naked, having nothing that can bo called a home, are barbarious and savage. The range is from the topmost round— the Anglo-Saxon civilization, which is the ■highest known—down to naked savagery. The portion of the race lying below the line of human condition is at the very least ihree-fifthi of the whole, or 900,000,000. Exehanoa. ____________