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to be indispensable to the more sturdy growth and health 

 of many cultivated vegetables ; it is probable that this 

 also holds true of the human race. There are few coun- 

 tries where the old breed has not again and again sunk 

 before the vigour of new immigi-ation ; we ev^en see the 

 worn out breed, chased from their homes to new location, 

 return, after a time, superior to their former vanquishers, 

 or gradually work their way back in peace, by superior 

 subsisting power : this is visible in France, where the ab- 

 original sallow Kelt, distinguished by high satyr-like 

 feature, deep-placed sparkling brown or grey eye, nar- 

 rowed lower part of the face, short erect vertebral co- 

 lumn, great mental acuteness, and restless vivacity, has 

 emerged from the holes of the earth, the recesses of the 

 forests and wastes, into which it had been swept before 

 the more powerful blue-eyed Caucasian; and being a 

 smaller, more easily subsisting animal, has, by starving 

 and eating out, been gradually undermining the breed of 

 its former conquerors. The changes which have bee a 

 taking place in France, and which, in many places, leave 

 now scarcely a trace of the fine race which existed twenty 

 centuries ago, may, however, in part, be accounted for by 

 the admixture of the Caucasian and Keltic tending more 

 to the character of the latter, from the latter being a 

 purer and more fixed variety, and nearer the original type 

 or medium standard of man; and from the warm dry 

 plains of France (much drier from cultivation and the re- 

 duction of the forests), having considerable influence to in- 

 crease this bias: In some of the south-eastern departments, 



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