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attitudes. In tlieir mouths Cupid's bow is drawn d(nvnAvards 

 at the sides and a smile is seldom pictured. They are 

 handsome rather than pretty. The productions of this later 

 Greek art were based on real persons of whom Ave may still 

 see representatives, but it was idealized into what has become 

 the standard of beauty for all time. 



If we were to search through the surrounding* regions ol 

 the earth to see whether we could any where find these several 

 characters to-day "sve should perhaps look for the later 

 inore luxurious type in Southern Asia. Among the fairer 

 races of India, for instance, we might find many a one who 

 in form and figure, and even complexion, would pass muster 

 in a gallery of Greek art. Around the IMediterranean this 

 rich beauty is sometimes seen appearing here and there by 

 reversion of type among the mixed people derived from 

 ]\Ioors and Spaniards, from Greeks and Italians, and many 

 another race. But nowhere among them is there anything 

 like the archaic Greek. 



Although we see in some ancient statues what looks like 

 a blending of the earlier and the newer types, there is not 

 that gradual modification of the archaic characters into the 

 portraits or ideals of the following ages, spoken of as the 

 highest period of Greek art, which we might expect if this 

 were a question of skill in manipulation or the development 

 of creative genius. It rather points to the absorption of the 

 remnants of an ancient race into one less strong perhaps but 

 numerically far superior. 



If, then, all the sculptors and poets of ancient Greece 

 represented their rulers as fair, bUie-eyed people, and if there 

 is a reasonable presumption that this portraiture represented 

 the characteristics of a dynasty, where is now the race to 

 Avhieh that dynasty originally belonged? Not in Asia nor 

 anj'where round the Mediterranean. It is now a northern 

 type. We find its nearest representative along the shore of 

 the Baltic and on the coast of Britain among the people 

 that have been developed from the hardy races that spread 

 from Germany to Britain and still seem to absorb all that 

 come within the influence of their greater prepotency of 

 transmission. 



When and in what direction did the migrations Avhich 

 have produced this result take place ? Have we in this a 

 record of the time when, ten or twenty centuries B.C. move- 

 ments in central Europe sent conquering hosts in all direc- 

 tions over the surrounding regions. 



