On 8/12/2003 9:16 pm, in article
9a93fcc04dfea2f9cd5d49aee5cfa914@news.teranews.com, "Roger" <roger@ .>
wrote:

> In one age, called the Second Age by some,
>  (an Age yet to come, an Age long past)
>     someone claiming to be White-Knight wrote
>        in message <BBFA8348.5D0%White-Knight@White-Country.org>:
> 
>> On 8/12/2003 5:47 am, in article
>> 8e9149132ea6d11a86b7a62533d1ae4a@news.teranews.com, "Roger" <roger@ .>
>> wrote:
> 
>>> In one age, called the Second Age by some,
>>>  (an Age yet to come, an Age long past)
>>>     someone claiming to be White-Knight wrote
>>>        in message <BBF8F295.53E%White-Knight@White-Planet.org>:
> 
>>>> On 7/12/2003 3:23 am, in article 3_idnc_tPN2ujU-iRVn-tA@giganews.com,
>>>> "William Daffer" <whdaffer@wabcmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> Since you can't give a definition of 'race' beyond the pitifully
>>>>> inept "I know it when I see it," it's hard to see how you would
>>>>> know who is and isn't of your race.
> 
>>>> Well let me ask you this question. Is impossible to know what race you are?
> 
>>> Which will be answered right after you define what you mean by "race"
>>> and how this can be objectively determined.
> 
>> This can be done.  If it is possible to look at a dog or any animal and be
>> able to tell the difference between one breed and another then it must be
>> possible to tell the difference between humans.
> 
> One usually follows a statement of faith with "Amen" or something.
> 
> Since you have been singularly unable to come up with a definition,
> that's apparently what this is for you.
race 

\Race\, n. [F. race; cf. Pr. & Sp. raza, It. razza; all from OHG. reiza
line, akin to E. write. See Write.] 1. The descendants of a common ancestor;
a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the
same stock; a lineage; a breed.



Whence the long race of Alban fathers come. --Dryden.

Note: Naturalists and ehnographers divide mankind into several distinct
varieties, or races. Cuvier refers them all to three, Pritchard enumerates
seven, Agassiz eight, Pickering describes eleven. One of the common
classifications is that of Blumenbach, who makes five races: the Caucasian,
or white race, to which belong the greater part of the European nations and
those of Western Asia; the Mongolian, or yellow race, occupying Tartary,
China, Japan, etc.; the Ethiopian, or negro race, occupying most of Africa
(except the north), Australia, Papua, and other Pacific Islands; the
American, or red race, comprising the Indians of North and South America;
and the Malayan, or brown race, which occupies the islands of the Indian
Archipelago, etc. Many recent writers classify the Malay and American races
as branches of the Mongolian. See Illustration in Appendix.

2. Company; herd; breed.



3. (Bot.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated.