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 THE HIERARCHY OF EUROPEAN RACES 321

by observers in widely separated localities, and is especially striking by reason of the uniformity of the results reached. As the detailed evidence is, however, already available to English readers, we will not encumber this paper with it, but will simply summarize some of the conclusions established. The cities have a more dolichocephalic population than the surrounding rural regions, and the fertile low country a more dolichocephalic population than the barren mountainous country. That this is due to the migration thitherward of the dolichocephalic element of the rural population, is shown by the fact that the migrants have an average cephalic inojex lower than that of the popula- tion they leave behind. As a last and most interesting illustra- tion of the greater mobility of the dolichocephalic elements, may be cited the fact that marriages between persons born in different localities are more frequent among them than among the brachy- cephalic elements.

To the above three laws others might be added, each formu- lating some significant difference in character or conduct between Homo Eurcpaus and Homo Alpinus? These laws, so far as dis- covered, all point to a single conclusion, that of the greater energy and capacity of the dolichocephalic element; and they may safely be generalized into a single law, that of the superi- ority of Homo Europaus. In view of the work of one man of genius in the discovery and proof of this law, and in the discern- ing of its many ramifications, it ought, in simple justice, to be designated as " the Law of de Lapouge."

COMPARISON OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WITH THE OTHER TWO

RACES.

Such being the relative rank of the two principal races of Europe, we will now turn to a consideration of the position of the third race the Mediterranean in comparison with either or both of the others. Our data may be grouped under three laws corresponding with those above formulated, the law of wealth

<>r a statement of a considerable number of such laws the reader is referred to a forthcoming monograph of de Laponge an English translation of which is under press on "the Fundamental Laws of Anthropo-sociology."