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dolichokephal has great ambitions," says De Lapouge, 1 "and 

 strives without ceasing to gratify them. He knows better 

 how to gain than to keep riches. He dares everything ; and 

 his audacity ensures success. He fights for fighting's sake, 

 but not without some idea of profit behind. Every land is 

 his : the whole globe is his country. His intelligence varies 

 from stupidity to genius. He is logical when it suits him, 

 and not to be put off with words. Progress is his greatest 

 need. In religion he is Protestant ; from the State he only 

 demands freedom of action, and seeks rather to elevate 

 himself than to depress others." 



The other type with which we have most to do is the 

 brachykephalic Alpine, sometimes, but perhaps inaccurately, 

 called Kelto-slav.- In this the stature is short, the head is 

 round or trapezoidal, flattened behind, the coloration brown 

 or dark. " The brachykephal is frugal, laborious, or at 

 least economical, remarkably prudent, and though not 

 cowardly, yet not warlike. His intelligence is usually 

 mediocre, and he works out patiently his limited ideals. 

 Though suspicious, he is easily taken in with words. He 

 is the slave of tradition, and of what is called common sense. 

 He distrusts progress, and adores uniformity. In religion 

 he is willingly Catholic : in politics, he has but one hope, 

 the protection of the State, and but one tendency, to level 

 down, caring little to elevate himself. He sees clearly his 

 own immediate interest and that of his family and neighbours, 

 but that of his country is too remote for him." 



In the mixed breeds which largely prevail in France, 

 ' the egotism is reinforced by the energetic individualism 

 of the dolichokephal, and the sentiment of family and of 

 race is weakened : hence come the vices of which our 

 bourgeois are accused, winding up with elimination by ' self- 

 restraint ' ". 



We all know that while dolichokephaly, even of ex- 

 treme degree, prevails among the relics of the palaeolithic 



1 I have somewhat abridged this very complete and coherent portrait, 

 as well as that of Homo Alpinus, which follows. 



2 The brachykephaly of the earliest known Slavs is very doubtful, to say 

 the most of it. 



