H4 Heredity. 



race has given to the world so high a proportion of musicians. 

 We need only mention the names of Mendelssohn, Halevy, and 

 Meyerbeer. 



On the other hand, they are but ill-endowed with all that relates 

 to scientific culture. ' A race incomplete by reason of its very 

 simplicity, it has neither plastic art nor rational science, nor 

 philosophy, nor political life, nor military organization. The 

 Semitic race has never understood civilization in the sense which 

 we attach to the word ; no great organized empires, no public 

 spirit are found in its womb. The questions of aristocracy, 

 democracy, and feudalism, which constitute the whole secret of 

 Indo-European history, have no meaning for the Semitic race. 

 Their military inferiority is the result of their utter incapacity for 

 discipline and organization.' (Renan.) 



To these general considerations may be appended a few more 

 precise facts. Heredity seems to have exerted on the Jewish race 

 a baleful influence, by sowing the seed of sundry mental disorders, 

 the result of intermarriage. The number of Jewish deaf-mutes is 

 enormous. Idiocy and mental alienation are also very frequent. 

 According to the German statistics, there is one idiot 



In Silesia to 580 Catholics, to 408 Protestants, to 514 Jews. 



In Wurtemburgto4,li3 103,207 to 3,003 



And one lunatic 



In Bavaria to 908 to 967 to 514 



In Hanover to 528 to 641 to 337 



In Silesia to 1,355 to 1,264 > to 624 > 



In Wurtemburg to 2,006 to 2,028 ,, to 1,544 ,, 



(Bulletins de la Societd d 1 Anthropologie, tome iv.) 



THE GYPSIES. 



The Gypsies, called in different countries by the names of 

 Bohemians, Zingari, Zigeuner, and Gitanos (Egyptians), afford 

 a striking example of the hereditary conservation of certain 

 psychological characteristics. 



According to Pasquier, they first appeared at Paris in 1427. 

 Accused of palmistry and sorcery, they were excommunicated, 

 expelled the country, threatened with death and the galleys. At 

 present Gypsies are to be found in most European countries. 

 In Turkey and in Hungary they are smiths, tinkers, musicians. 



