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perhaps the most important point insisted upon by Prof. Keith 

 is the distinction between this Bronze Age race and the " Alpine " 

 race of west-central Europe, which is also brachy cephalic, 

 but is brunet and short. The Round-Barrow people (who 

 reached this country shortly before the end of the Neolithic 

 Period) have been identified by most writers with the Goidelic 

 Kelts, and Prof. Keith appears to accept the view that the 

 two round-headed types were probably two branches of the 

 Kelts, and he places the original home of the British Round 

 Heads in the mountainous region of Central Europe. The 

 Teutons belonged to a different type — the tall blond long- 

 headed type — and it is worth noticing that this variety of 

 European is not the dominant type in Germany to-day. 

 Indeed, there is every reason to believe that the English as a 

 whole are more Teutonic in race than the modern Germans 

 as a whole, although in certain parts of Germany — Hanover, 

 Oldenburg, and Holstein — the people are very purely Teutonic, 

 no less so than the Norwegians and Swedes. Prof. Keith 

 digresses into this subject, which is worthy of a good deal 

 of consideration. It has long been notorious that the Prussian 

 kingdom contains a great admixture of German and non- 

 German people, although the common statement that the 

 ancient Prussians were Slavs is an error. The old Prussians 

 were Lithuanians. A large percentage of modern Prussians 

 are brachycephalic. The point is of interest, because the 

 physical characteristics appear to be reflected in some regions 

 of national psychology. It has often occurred to the present 

 writer that in some respects the traditional Germanic men- 

 tality has been much better preserved in England than in 

 Germany. The keystone of the ancient German polity was 

 the freeman, or, as we should call him, the elector. Among the 

 ancient Saxons the moot was greater than the king. The 

 aggrandisement of the monarchy in Prussia, with the concomi- 

 tant subordination of the commonalty, is certainly not a 

 Teutonic trait. Consider, for instance, the franchise for the 

 Prussian Parliament, which is not even intended to be demo- 

 cratic. The polity of such liberty-loving nations as the 

 Dutch, the Danes, the Norwegians, and (in a lesser degree) 

 the Swedes, is much more truly Teutonic. For some unknown 

 reason, Prof. Keith fails to point out the sharp distinction 

 between the two types of long-headed Europeans, the tall 



