Page:American Journal of Sociology Volume 3.djvu/334

 320 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

cated classes and professions ; the latter race is found more generally in a subordinate social position. The most interesting illustration of this law that we have to offer, will be presented later when we come to consider the Mediterranean race in comparison with the other two races. We may note here certain recent evidence that tends to establish the law as between the Homo Europaus and Homo Alpinus. It will be remembered that tall stature is especially characteristic of Homo Europceus. Now tall stature is found also to be characteristic of the higher professions. Chalemeau, for example, in his recent study, Influence de la Taille humaine sur la Formation des Classes sociales* based on the Swiss army statistics of the last ten years, finds that the stature of the subjects is in close correlation with their occupation and social position, and adopts as the explanation the greater relative prevalence in the higher callings of the ele- ment Europaus. Another bit of similar evidence may be taken from the work of Oloriz on the Geographical Distribution of the Cephalic Index in Spain? He compares the stature of 100 mem- bers of intellectual professions with that of 5 1 representatives of intermediate occupations, and with that of 319 manual laborers. The average height of the first group is 162.2 centimeters, that of the second 161.4 centimeters, and that of the third 160.2 centimeters.

The Law of Domicile and Migration. In countries inhabited Jointly by Homo Europceus and Homo Alpinus, the former constitutes the more migratory element of the population, and tends to concentrate in the cities and in the more fertile portions of the country? The statistical evidence in support of this law has been gathered

'Geneva, 1896.

8368 Varones Adultos, Madrid, 1894, p. 59.
 * Distribucibn Geogr&fica del Indice cef&lico tn Espagfta, deducida del Examen de

3 In a previous article treating the matter from the point of view of social selec- tion I have designated this law as " the law of displacement." " The dissociation of the different elements of a community may occur through a geographical separation by the migration of one of the elements. Such a movement may take the form of the abstraction of the element in question from the given community (as by emigration to foreign countries), or of its concentration in certain localities within the community (AS by migration from the country to the cities)."