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Mixed Alpine (Asiatic) Type. 

 Hungary. 



and call the broad- headed type Alpine. It centers in that region. 

 It everywhere follows the elevated portions of western Europe. 

 It is, therefore, pre-eminently a 

 mountain type, whether in France, 

 Spain, Italy, Germany, or Albania. 

 By the use of it we shall carefully 

 distinguish between language, cul- 

 ture, and physical type. Thus the 

 Celtic language and the Aryan cul- 

 ture may spread over the Alpine 

 race, or vice versa. As, in fact, each 

 may migrate in independence of the 

 others ; so in our terminology we 

 may distinctly follow them apart 

 from one another. No confusion of 

 terms can result. It is purely a geo- 

 graphical name, like the one we have 

 applied to the third group. 



One more matter of racial names 

 remains for consideration. What 

 shall we do with the term Slavic, which like Celtic is purely a 

 linguistic or ethnological term ? Curiously enough, from Poland 



to Macedonia, all over eastern Eu- 

 rope in fact, where the Slavic lan- 

 guage is in common use, the people 

 are of the same physical type as the 

 Alpine race. The distinctive fea- 

 tures, especially the broad-headed- 

 ness, are somewhat attenuated, to 

 be sure ; but anthropologists are 

 agreed that the two groups are iden- 

 tical. Our Russian portraits show 

 the tendency in this direction. In 

 eastern Europe, however, this type 

 ceases to be identified with the moun- 

 tainous areas. Its zone of extension 

 is widespread over the plains. Shall 

 we continue to call these people Slavs 

 from their language, or assign them 

 to the Alpine group despite this cir- 

 cumstance ? Or shall we, as in re- 

 cent vogue, apply the term Slavo- 

 Celtic to the whole combination ? 

 The question is still further confused because the Slavic language 

 linguistically is akin to the Teutonic, although the two physical 

 types are as wide apart as the poles. If we reject our term Celt, 



Mediterranean Type. Corsican. 

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