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but in order to realize the full weight of the comparison it is necessary to take note of two considerations. First, the group of ten million dolichocephalic population is embraced in only thirteen departments, whereas the ten million brachycephalics include the population of thirty departments ; this difference in the extent of area represented by the two groups explains the sole case (that of taxes on land, "property not built upon") in which the brachycephalic group pays the larger revenue to the government. Secondly, the dolichocephalic group includes the Seine (Paris), but even if this department be omitted altogether, the remaining seven million dolichocephalics pay nearly as much in each category of taxation as the ten million brachycephalics, and in some categories they pay even more.

A more detailed study of these and similar statistics would support the conclusion that the dolichocephalic elements excel not simply in the ownership of wealth, but still more in wealth producing capacity, and most of all in commercial and financial activity. Lapouge, after studying each category of taxes in detail, sums the case up as follows : " The dolichocephalic, then, appears to have a tax-paying capacity almost double that of the brachycephalic; and this conclusion is fortified by the persist- ence of the figures all through our comparison. The dolicho- cephalic departments are far more densely populated, far richer, far more active; their industries are more flourishing, their trade especially is far more extensive ; their financial needs, their public expenses and their debts arc more considerable ; the more active and progressive character of their population shows itself even in the greater number of bicycles owned and taxed. In a word the inequality of taxation is proof of the unequal economic activity and aptitude of the two races."

Law of Social Stratification. In countries inhabited jointly by Homo Europaus and Homo Alpinus, the former race is more gener- ally represented among the higher, nwn- influential, more highly edu-

For a detailed study of this subject see LAPOUGB, "Correlations financieres de > ctfphalique," Rev. <fton. fiolit., 1897, p. 257 ; and AMMON, " Die wirthschaft- liche Leistungsfahigkeit der drci weissen Rassen in Frankreich," Rundseka* dtr Dfutsckf* Ttihtng, II, Nos. 100. i i ^