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home perhaps originally in Asia but for a long time dominant also in central and southeastern Europe. Furthermore, it was his opinion that the Nordic temperament is not adaptable to the coming industrial type of civilization. But whether or not Retzius was temporarily blind to the fact that in the struggle for existence under the new order of things the qualities of character commonly asso- ciated with the North European will still be in demand, he was thoroughly sensible of the importance and also of the delicacy of the whole question involved, and one cannot but feel that in these social and political aspects of anthropology he would have been a safe and sane guide.

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