THE TEUTONIC OR NORDIC RACE 61 



took up the challenge and persuaded his government 

 to make an official census of the colour of the hair 

 and eyes of about six million school children of the 

 Empire. One of the results of this investigation was 

 to show that the chief difference in pigmentation in 

 Germany was between the north and south, and that 

 the natives of East and West Prussia were in this 

 respect as Teutonic as the people of Hanover. Un- 

 fortunately, however, the Prussian Army has been 

 forbidden to make those investigations into cranial 

 form and stature that have led to clear results in 

 other countries. Unofficial investigations have led 

 to the following conclusions. 



Scandinavia, that is to say Norway, Sweden and 

 Denmark, forms the headquarters of the Nordic or 

 Teutonic race and it is probable that the original 

 population of Finland was of the same type. It is a 

 tall, blond, dolichocephalic race with rather smooth 

 forehead and unsalient cheek-bones. The blondness 

 often takes the form of red hair, as in Scotland and 

 in the most Nordic parts of Russia. This race ex- 

 tends through North-western Germany, including 

 Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein and Westphalia, but 

 all the remainder of the German Empire, including 

 Prussia east of the Elbe, is much less Nordic in type, 

 and in Baden, Wurtemburg, Bavaria and the south, 

 the Nordic race is replaced almost completely by the 

 Alpine race. This difference of type is most apparent 

 in cranial index but is confirmed by stature and to a 

 lesser extent by colouration. 



The Balkan Peninsula and Greece. In the Balkan 

 Peninsula, including Greece, the confusion of race, 

 language and religion is extreme, and it cannot be 



