Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and ResultsTalbot, Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon)
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Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results
Talbot, Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon)
Abnormalities, Human; Degeneration; Heredity, Human
English Kelto-Teutonic Teutonic
Scotch Kelto-Teutonic Teutonic
Cornish Siluro-Kelto-Teutonic Teutonic
Irish (West) Siluro-Kelto-Teutonic Keltic
Welsh Siluro-Kelto-Teutonic Keltic
French Ibero-Kelto-Teutonic Italic
Spanish Ibero-Keltic Italic
Germans Slavo-Kelto-Teutonic Teutonic
Bohemians Kelto-Teuto-Slavonic Slavonic
Russians (many) Finno-Slavonic Slavonic
Hungarians Ugro-Slavonic Slavonic
Bulgarians Ugro-Teuto-Slavonic Finnic
Prussians (East) Letto-Teuto-Slavonic Teutonic
Rumanians Italo-Slavo-Illyric Italic
Italians Liguro-Kelto-Italic Italic
Profoundly mixed as this table indicates European races to be, it is far
from representing the full extent of race mingling. The primitive worship
of the Slavonic Czernebog by the Saxons in England demonstrates a Slavonic
strain, derivable, as Kiernan[135] remarks, from their contact with the
Wends of the Baltic. Not merely are the Aryan races of Europe mixed
together, but the blood of all has a pre-Aryan and a Turanian dash. In
Great Britain, as Taylor[136] and others have shown, the Iberian type is
found in Wales and Scotland as well as elsewhere, though in lesser degree.
These admixtures date back to palæolithic times when, although, as Keane
remarks, the predominant type of skull was dolicocephalic (or
long-headed), the brachycephalic (or round-headed type) had begun to
appear in America, then connected by land with both Africa and Europe. In
the subsequent neolithic time, while the type is at first generally
brachycephalic, it soon becomes mesatocephalic (mixed long and
round-headed), pure brachycephals and dolicocephals becoming rare. Vogt
went so far as to maintain that were the three chief anthropoid apes
developed further, two dolicocephalic and one brachycephalic type of man
would result; the first two from the chimpanzee and gorilla, the last from
the orang. The orang descendant would have long arms and red hair. The
chimpanzee descendant would be of small size, dark colour with slender
bones and jaws. The gorilla race would have massive chest, big bones,
massive jaws and teeth. These three types appear in Great Britain and
Ireland and traces of their blood are still detectable in living men. Sir
Walter Scott draws an excellent picture of the "orang" type in _Rob Roy_,
whose hero, according to reliable tradition, represented the Pict type.
Gomme[137] has lately shown that these races persisted long enough to
stamp their savage beliefs on coming races and intermingled with them. The
Neolithic race in Great Britain was dark, of feeble build, short stature,
with dolicocephalic skulls. This race remained to the historic period, as
the Silures in Great Britain and the Firbolgs in Ireland. It had high
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