The Great Race Passes 



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invaders were soon forced back into 

 central Europe by the Nordics. The 

 Alpines at this time of maximum exten- 

 sion, about 1800 B. C, crossed into 

 Britain, and a few reached Ireland and 

 introduced bronze into both these 

 islands." In Britain, however, they 

 made little permanent mark. At the 

 present time they form the great bulk 

 of the population of central France; 

 they represent the Slavs of the countries 

 to the east — the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, 

 Serbs, Croats, etc. The Magyars, who 

 now form the dominant party in Hun- 

 gary, are racially distinct, being an 

 Asiatic group allied to the Turks. 

 Alpines are to be found in large numbers 

 in southern Germany and northern 

 Italy. 



The early Alpines brought civilization 

 to Europe, with the culture of the 

 Bronze Age; and in Asia they have to 

 their credit the first real civilizations 

 on record — those of the Tigris and 

 Euphrates valleys. But "in classic, 

 medieval and modern times the Alpines 

 have played an unimportant part in 

 European culture. . . . There are, 

 however, many indications in current 

 history which point to a great develop- 

 ment of civilization in the Slavic 

 branches of this race." 



AN INVASION FROM AFRICA 



These round-skulled Alpines had 

 pushed themselves like a wedge into 

 central Europe. To the north of them 

 were the Teutonic tribes, the Nordic 

 race presently to be described; to the 

 south was the Mediterranean race, 

 which is called Iberian by old writers. 

 This is "a relatively small, light boned, 

 long skulled race, of brunet color, 

 becoming even swarthy in certain por- 

 tions of its range. Throughout Neo- 

 lithic times, and possibly still earlier, 

 it seems to have occupied, just as it 

 does today, all the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean, including the coast of Africa 

 from Morocco on the west to Egypt on 

 the east. The Mediterraneans are the 

 western members of a subspecies of 

 man which forms a substantial part 

 of the population of Persia, Afghanistan, 

 Baluchistan and Hindustan, with per- 



haps a southward extension into 

 Ceylon." 



"This Mediterranean subspecies at 

 the close of the Paleolithic spread from 

 the basin of the Inland Sea northward 

 by way of Spain throughout western 

 Europe, including the British Isles, and, 

 before the final expansion of the Alpines, 

 was widely distributed up to and touch- 

 ing the domain of the Nordic dolicho- 

 cephs. It did not cross the Alps from 

 the south, but spread around the moun- 

 tains across the Rhine into western 

 Germany." 



"It is to the Mediterranean race in 

 the British Isles that the English, 

 Scotch, and American owe whatever 

 brunet characters they possess. In 

 central Etirope it underlies the Alpine 

 race, and, in fact, wherever this race is 

 in contact with either the Alpines or 

 the Nordics, it appears to represent 

 the more ancient stratum of the popula- 

 tion." 



"Today the Mediterranean race forms 

 in Europe a substantial part of the 

 population of the British Isles, the great 

 bulk of the population of the Iberian 

 peninsula [Spain and Portugal], nearly 

 one-third of the population of France, 

 Liguria, Italy south of the Apennines, 

 and all the Mediterranean coasts and 

 islands, in some of which, like Sardinia, 

 is exists in great purity. It forms the 

 substratum of the population of Greece 

 and of the eastern coasts of the Balkan 

 peninsiila." In Britain the Welsh are 

 the principal representatives of this race. 



MAKERS OF CIVILIZATION 



"This is the race that gave the world 

 the great civilizations of Egypt, of 

 Crete, of Phoenicia including Carthage, 

 of Etruria and of Mycenean Greece. It 

 gave us, when mixed and invigorated 

 with Nordic elements, the most splendid 

 of all civilizations, that of ancient Hellas, 

 and the most enduring of political 

 organizations, the Roman State." 



"Even though the Mediterranean 

 race has no claim to the invention of 

 synthetic languages, and though it 

 played a relatively small part in the 

 development of the civilization of the 

 Middle Ages or of modern times, never- 



