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deny that Finns, Letto-Lithuanians, and Teutons are all offslioots of 

 the same trunk? A direct physical relationship between the three, 

 referring them all to a so-called nordic race, is confirmed by the very 

 latest and most competent authority;* and this in absolute inde- 

 pendence of our own conclusions. 



If it be established by further investigation, our theory goes far 

 to simplify the entire problem of the physical anthropology of Eu- 

 rope. It is not a new idea. Europeans advanced it twenty years ago 

 on the basis of the then recent archseological discoveries of a long- 

 headed, tall race in the tumuli of the stone age, but it never gained 

 any acceptance at the time. A curious corollary of this theory is that 

 De Quatrefages and Virchow, in their celebrated international con- 

 troversy over the origin of the Prussians, were both partly in the 

 right. Virchow resented the view of a Einnic origin of his people 

 as an insult, because Lapps and Einns were then confused with one 

 another, and he certainly was right in denying any affinity of Prus- 

 sians with Lapps. De Quatrefages, in asserting that the Prussians 

 were of Einnic ancestry, was equally in the right, if our theory be 

 true; but he erred in supposing that this damned them as non-Teu- 

 tonic. Eor us the Prussians, along with the Hanoverians and Scan- 

 dinavians, are all at bottom Einnic. We would not stop here. We 

 would agree absolutely with Europeans in his further hypothesis — 

 that these Einns of northern Europe are directly related with that 

 primitive Mediterranean long-headed stock, sprung from the same 

 root as the negro, which we have shown to underlie all the other 

 races of Europe. f Its blondness is an acquired characteristic, due 

 to the combined influences of climate and artificial or natural selec- 

 tion. Erom this center in the north, invigorated by the conditions of 

 its habitat, and speedily pressing upon the meager subsistence 

 afforded by Nature, this race has once again during the historic 

 period retraced its steps far to the south, appearing among the other 

 peoples of Europe as the politically dominant Teutonic race. 



The anthropological history of northeastern Europe is now clear. 

 The Slavs penetrated Kussia from the southwest, where they were 

 physically an offshoot from the great Alpine race of central Europe. 

 In so doing they forced a way in over a people primitive in culture, 



* Consult Deniker's map of the Races of Europe, 1898 a, in L'Anthropologie, vol. ix, 

 p. 129. Talko-Hryneewicz, 1893, p. 170, emphasizes the similarity of Letto-Lithuanians 

 and Finns. Kohn and Mehlis, vol. ii, pp. 108 a; d 153, acknowledge the similarity of Koper- 

 nicky's Kurgan people and the Teutonic Reihengriiber, as does Bogdanof, 1892, pp. 19-21, 

 also. 



f The Aryan Question, Popular Science Monthly, vol. lii, January, 1898, pp. 309 et seq. 

 This is in perfect accord with Sergis's most recent work in Centralblatt fiir Anthropologie, 

 1898, p. 2; and with Niederle's conclusions (1896, p. 131 ; and especially in Globus, vol. 

 Ixxi, No. -24). 



