Preface 



harder to believe the stories of old historians 

 about the eradication of subject races by con- 

 querors on any large scale ; flight on the part 

 of the vanquished must have been usually 

 followed by a speedy return, with consequent 

 readjustment of the population. 



The Lapp, the Finn, the Turk, for example, 

 are not confined to northeastern Europe and 

 the lands by the Black Sea and Bosphorus ; 

 they are everywhere present as a strain in the 

 so-called Aryan races. The Kelt exists in 

 Germany, but Germanized ; the ancient Briton 

 is found in purest Anglo-Saxondom. Their 

 tongues are gone, leaving more or less traces 

 behind, which philology has not yet begun to 

 disentangle ; but they remain as important 

 parts of the ethnic mixtures which call them- 

 selves by various rough-and-ready names, like 

 English, German, French, Italian, Greek. 

 Myths and old beliefs reveal the influence of 



non-Aryan races on Europe. Physical and 



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