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Teutonic type will be found a few hundred years hence. In 

 Wales, not only is there the dark, broad-headed, Celtic type — a 

 race of vigorous vitality and high reproductive power — but there 

 is also " a Mongoloid type, generally dark, mixed with a long- 

 headed Basque type, and it is the dark races, as a whole, which 

 give their special race-characters to the Welsh." The same dark- 

 race mixture is also found in Ireland, sturdily surviving, not only 

 the most hideous and ferocious struggles amongst themselves, but 

 also the utmost evils which the exasperation of a conquering race 

 could inflict upon them. And with this result, horrible to Eliza- 

 bethan statesmen, that the English colonists in time became 

 assimilated to the " mere, wild Irish," adapted their habits and 

 modes of thought, and sank to nearly the same level. 



Dr. Beddoe, of Bristol, and Dr. Davies. of Aberceri, agree as 

 to the startling fact that there is a '' difliculty in rearing fine, well- 

 developed, fair children in towns, especially in the lower ranks." 

 Dr. Davies adds : — "The Welsh Basque element is increasing in 

 the west of England by a slight natural selection. In Bristol, 

 mixed parents often have one child of a fair Saxon and another of 

 a dark Basque type, and the chances of survival of the dai-k child 

 are better than those of the fair one. Spasmodic croup and other 

 convulsive diseases, or chest affections, will often kill the latter 

 and leave the former. Even in the well-to-do classes, it is a com- 

 paratively difficult thing in Bristol to rear a well-developed fair 

 child." Dr. Davies, having been Medical Officer of Health in 

 Bristol, has had a large field of observation. 



In Lower Canada, the French Canadians, the most unprogres- 

 sive of Celts, are pushing aside the Canadians of Scotch and 

 English descent by sheer animal vitality and reproductive power, 

 sixteen children in a family being by no means an uncommon 

 number amongst the "habitants." 



The purity of the fair Aryan type — the ^^ sangre aztiV or 

 "blue blood" — was jealously preserved by the descendants of the 

 Visigoth conquerors of Spain, and strikes one notably in the 

 portraits of Charles V. by Rubens. But the race was only kept 

 pure by ruinous interbreeding. It deteriorated, both in body and 

 mind, so that a vivacious French ambassadress of the i8th 

 century said, that when a " grandee of Spain " was presented to 



