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on the extreme east. Tims it is hardly possible 

 that fewer than three races should have contributed 

 to the formation of the Slavonic people; namely, 

 the blond long-heads, the European brunet broad- 

 heads, and the Asiatic brunet broad-heads. And, 

 in the absence of evidence to the contrary, it is cer- 

 tainly permissible to suppose that it is the first race 

 which has furnished the blond complexion and the 

 stature observable in so many, especially of the 

 northern Slavs, and that the brunet complexion 

 and the broad skulls must be attributed to the 

 other two. But, if that supposition is permissible, 

 then the Aryan form and substance of the Slavonic 

 languages may also be fairly supposed to have pro- 

 ceeded from the blond long-heads. They could 

 not have come from the Asiatic brunet broad- 

 heads, who all speak non- Aryan languages; and the 

 presumption is against their coming from the 

 brunet broad-heads of the central European high- 

 lands, among whom an apparently non-Aryan 

 language was largely spoken, even in historical 

 times. 



In the same way, the tall blond tribes among 

 the Fins may be accounted for as the product of 

 admixture. The great majority of the Finno- 

 tataric people are brunet broad-heads of the 

 Asiatic type. But that the Fins proper have long 

 been in contact with Aryans is evidenced by the 

 many words borrowed from Aryan which their 

 language contains. Hence there has been abun- 



