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in Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, they have 

 been driven westwards towards the sea by the pres- 

 sure of other races. In many parts of the actual 

 coast line, they have been modified by sea-borne 

 immigration of other stocks, so that they are often 

 found, in their most typical form, a few miles inland. 

 They are the characteristic inhabitants of the "Celtic 

 fringes," although they have nothing to do with the 

 race that brought Celtic culture to Europe. 



The Mediterranean Race from the physical point 

 of view is most closely related to the negroid African 

 stocks. The members of this long-headed, short, 

 and dark race are often vain, lively and excitable 

 in disposition, prone to music, religion and super- 

 stition, and comparisons have been made between 

 such mental characters and the characters of negroes. 

 But, as I shall show in a later section of this book, 

 it is impossible to distinguish the races of Europe by 

 mental factors, and we have to remember that the 

 grave Spaniard is as certainly one of the Mediterra- 

 nean race as the excitable Welshman or Scotch 

 highlander. 



We know nothing definite as to the origin of 

 the Nordic or Teutonic Race, but may guess that 

 it was a derivative either of an early wave of the 

 Mediterranean stock, or even of its more primitive 

 predecessors, much modified by the harder conditions 

 of northern Europe. Physically it is extremely long- 

 headed, tall, and with a high percentage of blondness 

 in skin, eyes and hair. Its centre of dispersal has been 

 southwards and eastwards from Scandinavia and 

 across the seas, and it has sent out wave after wave 

 of conquering races far down into historical times. 



