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Taylor, _Origin of the Aryans_, mentions several famous men who had
typical Neanderthal skulls, among them Robert Bruce.
108 : 1 _seq._ Beddoe, 4, pp. 265–266; Ripley, pp. 326–334, but
especially pp. 266, 330–331.
108: 16. Alés Hrdlička, _The Most Ancient Skeletal Remains of Man_,
considers the Neanderthal type extinct, as do Keith, _Antiquity of Man_,
_passim_, and A. C. Haddon. Consult Barnard Davis, _Thesaurus
Craniorum_, especially p. 70, and Beddoe, 2, as well as Osborn, 1, p.
217.
108 : 18. Firbolgs. See the note above to line 1; also Taylor, _Origin
of the Aryans_, p. 78.
109 : 8. Broca, according to Osborn, is responsible for this theory.
109 : 17 _seq._ See pp. 329 _seq._ of Galton’s _Hereditary Genius_.
110 : 8. In Dordogne, France, there are people who look as it is thought
the Cro-Magnons did. These modern people may belong to that type in the
same way that here and there people resembling the Neanderthals are
still found. In Dordogne these Cro-Magnon features are quite common, and
differ markedly from those of other Frenchmen. For studies of this type
see Collignon, 1. For full discussions of the ancient Cro-Magnons see
Keith, 1 and 2, and Osborn, 1.
110 : 11. Dr. Charles B. Davenport, in correspondence, remarks: “There
can be no doubt that the prolific shall inherit the earth or the
proletariat shall inherit the earth, which is etymologically the same
thing. We see this law in action in Russia to-day.... Can we build a
wall high enough around this country, so as to keep out these cheaper
races, or will it be only a feeble dam which will make the flood all the
worse when it breaks? Or should we admit the four million picks and
shovels which many of our capitalists are urging Congress to admit in
order to secure what wealth we can for the moment, leaving it for our
descendants to abandon the country to the blacks, browns and yellows,
and seek an asylum in New Zealand? I am inclined to think that the thing
to do is to make better selection of immigrants, admitting them in
fairly large numbers so long as we can sift out the defective strains.”
111 : 20 _seq._ É. Cartailhac says, in _La France préhistorique_: “The
race of Cro-Magnon is well determined. There is no doubt about their
high stature and Topinard is not the only one who believes that they
were blonds.” See also G. Retzius, 3. But he derives the Nordics from
them. On the other hand, the Dordogne people to-day are dark, and many
anthropologists are inclined to the belief that the Cro-Magnons were
brunets, a theory in which the writer heartily concurs.
112 : 1. L’Abbé H. Breuil, _Les subdivisions du paléolithique supérieur
et leur signification_, pp. 203–205. Other writers such as Nilsson and
Dawkins have also held this theory.
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