fX'^e see'mcd to be t-otally diftiorent from any language in 

 Europe, and to be like none other in the world. But 'now 

 they eeem to be a colony of Neolithic men left behind in the 

 for^^■ard march of the race. 



I show yon a picture of a little black Cornishman, v/ho 

 may reprceent the race in England. After a good deal of 

 search I found this specimen. He said his people had lived 

 in Cornwall for unknown ages, and were one of the oldest 

 families there. He looked like a foreigner in hie own 

 country, though perhaps his people had been there for many 

 thousands of j'ears. He would have passed without com- 

 ment in a Spanish or Portuguese crowd. Yet his nephew, 

 whom I saw, looked like a typical Englishman. It is this 

 strange reversion to original typos that enables U6 to judge, 

 of the origin and original characters of races. 



Two' laws seem to be aJl the time at vrork. There is a 

 continual tendency to uniformity of type to produce average 

 mixtures, if I may &0' fspeak, and yet there are occasional 

 reversions tO' the familiar type occuning somctimee after 

 thousands of years, and it is this that gives us a peep into 

 the past. 



Our Neolithic men from Africa seem also to have crossed 

 the Moditen-anean in three places. Probably the laud was 

 continuous at that time and the Mediterranean only a series 

 of lakes, and the African races came and wont across at 

 Gibraltar, Italy via Sicily, and at Greece via Crete. And 

 tlius in all three peninsulas they constitute probably the 

 basic elements of race. 



It seems to the writer that the great-cr part, of the 

 population of Italy ia descended from the old Neolithic 

 stock, and that notwithstanding the frequent invasions of 

 other races this old African race is still predominant. 



But in Greece ,it seems to the M'riter, that the Aryan 

 type of race prevailed in classic times, and that the Greeks 

 of classic times were nearly pure Aryan. 



In our Greek histories we used to read of a prehistoric 

 race called Pelasgiaii, and we often wondered what this 



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