These paintings and sculptures assure us that in all those millenniums domestication has not produced the slightest change in the races of animals, plants, or men.

The Ethiopian has not changed his skin, nor the leopard his spots.
The negro was then the same black-skinned, woolly-headed, flat-nosed, thick-lipped, long-heeled person he is to-day, as pompous, good-humored, and fond of finery.

The Assyrian statues are good, recognizable likenesses of eminent living Jewish merchants, in London and New Orleans.

The old Pharaohs of the monuments can be matched for face and figure any day in the bazars of Cairo.

The greyhound of the tombs is the same variety now used for coursing hares in the desert.