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measure due to local conditions, of soil, climate, food, 

 customs, and so on, acting for long generations on a 

 stay-at-home people: but the main differences are 

 undoubtedly racial; and here we are on a subject in 

 which we poor ordinary folk who want to know are 

 like sheep wandering shepherdless in some wilderness, 



bleating in vain for guidance in a maze of fleece- 

 tearing brambles. It is true that the ethnologists 

 and anthropologists triumphantly point out that the 

 Jute type of man may be recognised in the Isle of 

 Wight, and in a less degree even in the Meon dis- 

 trict ; for the rest, with a wave of the hand to indicate 

 the northern half of the county, they say that all that 

 is or ought to be more or less Anglo-Saxon. That's all ; 



