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tendency to tall stature. Dr. Collignon has even demonstrated it 

 as a law in France that the relation between the two holds good. 

 The Teutonic race is also strongly 

 inclined to blondness. The eyes are 

 blue or light gray, and the hair flax- 

 en, tawny, reddish, or sandy. The 

 whole combination accords exactly 

 with the descriptions handed down 

 to us by the ancients. Such were the 

 Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Van- 

 dals, Lombards, together with the 

 Danes, Norsemen, Saxons, and their 

 fellows of another place and time. 

 History is thus strictly corroborated 

 by natural science. 



Our second racial type is most per- 

 sistently characterized by the shape 

 of the head. This is short and at the 

 same time broad. The roundness is 

 accompanied by a broad face, the chin full, and the nose rather 

 heavy. These traits are all shown more or less clearly in our por- 

 traits, one from south central France, two from Bavaria, and one 

 from northern Italy. The side views show the shortness of the 



TEUTONIC TYPE. Norway, Vaage. 

 Cephalic Index, 75. 



TEUTONIC TYPES. Norway, Hedalen. 

 Cephalic Index, 76. 



head as contrasted with the Teutonic type above described. At 

 the same time the cranium is high, the forehead straight, some- 

 times almost overhanging. It seems as if pressure had been ap- 

 plied front and back, the skull having yielded in an upward direc- 

 tion. This type is of medium height, decidedly inclined toward 

 stockiness in build. Its whole aspect is rather of solidity than of 



