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years, and yet that the artistic type not only existed in classical 
times but still, even now, occasionally emerges, is at any rate 
suggested by the two photographs I now show you (fig. 3), one 
the portrait of a young Greek (taken from von Luschan) of the 
Island of Skyros, the other that of the Hermes of Praxiteles, 
one of the most famous of the ancient Greek statues. Note 
small mouth with its prominent lips, the small but firmly 
moulded chin, and particularly the general harmony of the 
features, difficult to express precisely in words, and impossible 
by measurements, but none the less apparent in a photograph. 
A still more remarkable instance of this persistence an 
certain villages in Syria in which the ancient blood has ap- 
parently remained pure, the people, according to von Luschan, 
are ‘“‘ as like one another as eggs”... . a statement so bold that 
accuracy seems to be submerged in exaggeration. It is cer- 
tainly not true of the Armenians we meet in India, who, with 
few exceptions, come from the neighbourhood of Ispahan in 
Persia. We know as a matter of history that these people 
are the descendants of a body of colonists who were trans- 
ported to Persia by Shah Abbas in the 16th century from Julfa, 
south of the Caucasus. They have given the name of Julfa to 
the suburb of Ispahan which they still regard as their head- 
quarters, For generations past the Armenians of the new 
from admixture, but the early European travellers in Persia 
state that the Armenians of Ispahan were given wives by Sha 
Abbas. It is not surprising, therefore, to find among the 
ris 
after either of his parents or after a more remote ancestor, 
Same ancestor. 
1**The Early Inhabitants of Western Asia” (The Huxley Memo- 
rial Lecture for 1911). This view has not been universally accepted, but 
as to the antiquity of the Armenoid racial type there can be no doubt. 
