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nay, thousands of years it had been subjected (so say 

 these anthropologists) that the fair-haired, light-skinned 

 type of mankind was formed. They imagine these fair- 

 haired people continuing, after their forced migration 

 northwards, through hundreds or thousands of years, 

 and they point out that it is only in the southern 

 Scandinavian countries, in Denmark and South Sweden, 

 that we have traces of the presence of man, apparently 

 so continuous as to bridge over the time between his 

 earliest remains (in what is called the First Stone Age) 

 and his later remains of the Second Stone Age. Thus, 

 for a time — a period not estimable in years, and in an 

 unspeakably remote past, measuring by historical 

 standards— there lived on in the north these fair people 

 of the north, and in Central and Southern Europe a 

 different race of darker people, more allied to the dark 

 races of Asia or Africa. At last the fair people 

 migrated southwards, conquered the dark races, mingled 

 with them, and imposed, it may be, their language 

 upon them. Out of this mixed race sprang all those 

 different European peoples, which are, we know, allied 

 to each other in language, as well as those other races 

 of Persia and India, whose language likewise shows 

 them descended from the same stock as the Europeans. 

 The supporters of tliis theory point out among other 

 things how many of the dominant races among the 

 people of antiquity prided themselves upon their fair 

 hair — among the Greeks, for example, and the ancient 

 Persians — whereas it is not common to find a 

 fair-haired man among their modern representatives; 

 and they take this as evidence of the conquest by 

 the fair-haired race from the north of the Southern 



