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Moravia, Hungary; the lower valley of the 

 Danube and the Balkan peninsula, have been 

 largely or completely Slavonised ; and the 

 Slavonic rule and language, which once had 

 trouble to hold their own in West Russia and 

 Little Russia, have now extended their sway over 

 all the Finno-tataric populations of Great Russia ; 

 while they are advancing, among those of central 

 Asia, up to the frontiers of India on the south 

 and to the Pacific on the extreme east. Thus it 

 is hardly possible that fewer than three races 

 should have contributed to the formation of the 

 Slavonic people ; namely, the blond long-heads, 

 the European brunet broad-heads, and the Asiatic 

 brunet broad-heads. And, in the absence of 

 evidence to the contrary, it is certainly permissible 

 to suppose that it is the first race which has fur- 

 nished the blond complexion and the stature 

 observable in so many, especially of the northern 

 Slavs, and that the brunet complexion and the 

 broad skulls must be attributed to the other two. 

 But, if that supposition is permissible, then the 

 Aryan form and substance of the Slavonic lan- 

 guages may also be fairly supposed to have pro- 

 ceeded from the blond long-heads. They could 

 not have come from the Asiatic brunet broad- 

 heads, who all speak non-Aryan languages; and 

 the presumption is against their coming from the 

 brunet broad-heads of the central European high- 

 lands, among whom an apparently non-AryaD 



