XVII 



Man in Nature 333 



are equally pronounced, and at the present time the White 

 type, particularly the Aryan races spreading from Western 

 Eurasia, dominate the whole world. No other peoples 

 have ever succeeded in establishing democratic govern- 

 ment. The classification given in the table is founded 

 mainly on affinities of language. The Aryan group, for 

 example, includes the speakers of the Aryan or Indo- 

 Germanic languages, all of which contain many words of 

 common derivation, notwithstanding the differences between 

 English, German, Danish, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, 

 Greek, Russian, Persian, and Sanscrit. Consequently it is 

 assumed by Professor Max Miiller and other philologists 

 that the races using these languages are also descended 

 from a common ancestry, and much ingenuity has been 

 applied to the discovery of the original seat of this primi- 

 tive people the Aryans. 



426. People of Europe. Professor Huxley has recently 

 shown that, so far as the peoples of Europe are concerned, 

 it is impossible to reconcile the linguistic with the physical 

 classification. He points out that the difference between 

 the Teutonic-speaking nations of Britain, Germany, Holland, 

 and Scandinavia ; the Romanic-speaking people of Spain, 

 Portugal, Italy, France, and Rumania ; the Slavonic-speak- 

 ing people of Servia, Bulgaria, and Russia ; and even the 

 Magyar and Finnish-speaking people of Hungary, Finland, 

 and Lapland, do not warrant a scientific classification by 

 language. He recognises two extreme types of Europeans, 

 which are rarely found pure, and occur mixed together in 

 varying proportions in all parts of the continent. The 

 first type is that of tall men, averaging about 5 feet 8 inches 

 in height, with long heads, fair complexions, yellow or light 

 brown hair, and blue eyes. Such people are most abun- 

 dant in the north, round the coasts of the Baltic, and their 

 character is typically solid, trustworthy, persevering, and 

 deliberate. The second type is that of a shorter race, 

 averaging about 5 feet 5 inches in height, with rojindgd 

 heads, swarthy complexions, black or dark brown hair and 

 eyes. They are most numerous in the south bordering on 

 the Mediterranean. Their prevailing character is impulsive 



