And here begins the ancient pedigree That so exalts our poor nobility. 'Tis that from some French trooper they derive, Who with the Norman bastard did arrive. The trophies of the families appear. Some show the sword, the bow, and some the spear, Which their great ancestor, forsooth, did wear. These in the herald's register remain Their noble mean extraction to explain; Yet who the hero was no man can tell, Whether a drummer or a colonel; The silent record blushes to reveal Their undescended, dark original. These are the heroes that despise the Dutch And rail at new-come foreigners so much, Forgetting that themselves are all derived From the most scoundrel race that ever lived; A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransacked kingdoms and dispeopled towns; The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, By hunger, theft, and rapine hither brought, Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes, Whose red-haired offspring everywhere remains, Who, joined with Norman-French, compound the breed From whence your true-born Englishmen proceed. And, lest by length of time, it be pretended The climate may this modern breed have mended, Wise Providence, to keep us where we are, Mixes us daily with exceeding care. We have been Europe's sink, the jakes where she Voids all her offal outcast progeny. For ages, fugitives from neighbouring lands Have here a certain sanctuary found; The eternal refuge of the vagabond, Wherein but half a common age of time, Borrowing new blood and manners from the clime, Proudly they learn all mankind to contemn, And all their race are true-born Englishmen." [134] _Ethnology_, p. 201. [135] _Alienist and Neurologist_, 1892, 1895, 1896. [136] _Origin of the Aryans._ [137] _Ethnology in Folklore._ [138] _Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease_, 1886. [139] _Origin of the Aryans._ [140] _Alienist and Neurologist_, January, 1892. [141] Cited by S. Laing, _Human Origins_, pp. 38-41. [142] _Anthropology._ [143] _Alienist and Neurologist_, October, 1896. [144] _Origin of the Aryans._ [145] Talbot, _Osseous Deformities_. [146] _Osseous Deformities of the Jaw_, p. 30. [147] _Hybridity and Heredity_, p. 307. [148] Cited by Keane, _Ethnology_, p. 265. See also Johnston, _British Central Africa_, 1897. [149] _Journal Am. Medical Ass._, vol. xx., 1893. [150] _La Razza Negra_, p. 20, 1864. [151] _Man and Woman_, pp. 25, 390. [152] Johnson, _Chemistry of Common Life_, vol. i. p. 239. [153] _Detroit Lancet_, September, 1882. [154] _Observations on the Brain and Mind_, p. 10, 1798. [155] _The Opium Habit._ [156] _Review of Insanity and Nervous Disease_, 1890. [157] _Annual Universal Medical Sciences_, 1895. [158] _Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences_, 1892; and (for Summary of Etienne's Report on the offspring of the young married women in the Nancy factories), _British Medical Journal_, April 23, 1898.