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��contribute to the production of an attractive and useful summary of scattered information. There is only one fault to find in this regard. You cannot find from any index where Dr Ripley has quoted you.

The work is out and out biological. The author goes out of his way to remind the reader, again and again, that race has naught to do with speech or arts or social structures. Race is blood or breed — not in an old-fashioned sense of fixed species, not in the view of modern types, but in an ideal sense. You cast your eyes over the varied popu- lations of Europe and discover many types, but at root there are only three races or zoological groups, each possessed of a history of its own. "Our three racial types are not radically distinct seeds which, once planted in the several parts of Europe, have there taken root ; and, each preserving its peculiarities intact, have spread from those centers out- ward until they have suddenly run up against one another along a racial frontier. . . . These types for us are all offshoots from the same trunk." The following table will show the gist of the problem :

��Race Type

�Head

�Face Long

�Hair

�Eyes

�I.

�Long

�Very

�Blue

�Teutonic

� � �Hght

� ��Stature

��Tall

��Note

��Narrow, Aquiline

��Synonym*

��Dolicho-

lepto

Reihen

graber

Germanic

Kymric

Nordic

Homo

Europaeus

��Used by

��Kollmann

Germans

English French Deniker

I .apouge

��II.

�Round

�Broad

�Light,

�Hazel,

�Me-

�Variable,

�Alpine

� � �Chest-

�Gray

�dium,

�Broad,

�(Celtic)

� � �nut

� �Stocky

�Heavy

��C el to-Slavic

Sarmatian

Dissentis

Arvernian

Occidental

Homo Al-

pinus Lappanoid

��French

von Hblder

Germans

Beddoe

Deniker

Lapouge

Pruner Bey

��III.

�Long

�Long

�Dark

�Dark

�Me-

�Rather

�Mediter-

� � �brown

� �dium

�broad

�ranean.

� � �or black

� �Slen- der

� ��Iberian

Ligurian

Ibero-Insu-

lar

Atlanto-

Mediterra-

nean

��English Italians

��Deniker

��When the author comes to lay his plan upon the actual populations as set forth in Deniker's scheme of Europe, it will not fit. But there is a ready explanation for this in the fact that environment, in its widest

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