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peoples of foreign races, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, 

 Turks, and Mamelukes. The Macedonian colonies, founded by 

 Alexander and his successors, soon lost their ethnological 

 character. 3 Southern Italy has not preserved the impress of 

 the Norman race. It would be vain to search in Asia Minor 

 for the descendants of the Gauls with fair hair, 4 who once es- 

 tablished themselves in Galatia ; and though the Visigoths 

 possessed Spain for more than two centuries, and have never 

 been expelled from it, and we may without exaggeration com- 

 pute the number of the conquerors at several hundred thousand, 

 and though their blood, mitigated by intermixture, runs to this 

 day in the veins of an immense number of Spaniards, the latter 

 have preserved no trace of their Germanic origin. 



But when the intermixture of races is effected in nearly 

 equal proportions, or if it be the result, not of one invasion, 

 but of a constant and abundant immigration, the case is alto- 

 gether different, and the fusion of the ethnological elements 

 gives rise to a hybrid population, in which the number of in- 

 dividuals of a pure race is constantly diminishing, so that at 

 the termination of a few centuries the representatives of the 

 two primitive types become the exceptions. In a long Memoir 

 " On the Ethnology of France," which I lately read before the 

 Anthropological Society of Paris, I have shown to what extent 

 intermixture may modify the physiognomy of a people. Ex- 

 amining in the first place the records of history on hand, the 

 origin of the populations of our departments, and appreciating 

 as much as possible the proportion of the elements which we 

 find in combination ; determining, also, for each region the 

 principal and the accessory stocks, I have been enabled to find 

 in the present French nation, in the midst of the innumerable 

 variations of stature, complexion, hair, eyes, cephalic shapes, 

 etc., which may everywhere be expected in mixed races ; I have 

 been able to detect, I repeat, the characters of these different 



1 Macedones qui Alexandriarn in .^Egypto, qui Seleuciam ac Babyloniaui, 

 quique alias sparsas per orbem colonias habent in Syros, Parthos, iEgyptos 

 degenerarunt. Tit. L., lib. xxxviii., 217. 



4 All the Gauls were not light haired j but those who, three centuries before 

 our era, invaded Greece and Asia Minor, were fair haired, according to all 

 testimony ; they consequently belonged to the Kimri race. 



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