136 HEREDITY. 



The combining of races and tribes has been one 

 of the supreme factors in the development of civi- 

 The Three Great Hzation and in the formation of nations. The 

 Aryan race from time immemorial led in the plant- 

 ing of new nations and ever stood for power and 

 progress ; the Semitic race gave us the three great 

 religions, Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan; 

 the Hamitic race gave rise to learning and science ; 

 from a combination of these three has sprung the 

 many-sided civilization of the world. The ming- 

 ling of the Franks and Normans brought about 

 by the marriage of the Duke of Normandy, Rollo, 

 to the daughter of the Frankish king, and the sub- 



The Combining se quent intermarriages of these races formed- the 

 of Races. 



new Norman race. It combined the daring and 



adventurous spirit of the old Scandinavian war- 

 riors with the higher civilization of the Franks, 

 producing a people destined to play a leading role 

 in the subsequent history of all Europe. The inter- 

 marriage of the lonians, Dorians and Spartans 

 formed the pedestal of ancient Greece upon which 

 arose her imperishable monuments of art and 

 learning. It was the union of the Italian race 

 (which was of Aryan stock) with the Gauls, 

 Pelasgians, Etruscans and lapygians that created 

 the nucleus of the Roman Empire and gave birth 

 to the man of iron the conqueror of the world. 



The Formation ^ was tne un i n f tne refined, art-loving Celts 

 of Nationalities, with the sturdy, aggressive, cruel Saxons, Angles 

 and Jutes that formed the Anglo-Saxon race, and 

 gave to England her combination of power and 

 beauty, aggressiveness and policy, sturdiness with 

 true refinement, prosaic manner yet poetic senti- 

 ment. It is the interblending and combining of 



