Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1895-02-15
VALUE OF MIXED BLOOD.
Nations Where Races Have Been Fase'
Always tho Greatest.

Nations where Races Have Been Fused
Always tho Greatest.
Iookinr at the matter somewhat broadly
and omitting minor variations. it may be
said that two vigorous but somewhat wide
ly divergent races, or group OF races now
occupy Europe and the lands that nave
been peopled from Europe. The one race
is tall, fair and usually long healed; tne
other short, dark and usually broad neaoeo.
Since the dawn of European history az |
least and with special vigor about i,ooo
wears ago the tall, fair. energetic race mas
been shed as a seminal principle from the
northeast of Europeover great part OF tne
continent held by darker and perhaps
more civilized race.
The physical characteristics OF Europe
have been very favorable to the spread and
fnsion of these fine races, and the outcome
has been the strongest and most variously
gifted breed of men that the world has ever
ecen. Wherever the races have remained
comparatively pure we seldom find any
high or energetic civilization and never
any fine towering of genius. Sweden,
where the tall, fair, long headed race exists
in its purest form, has produced no 1magl-
native genius. Auvergne, where the dark,
broad headed race may be found in great
nnrity has in like manner produced
vigorous but an undistinguished breed OF
men.
a fairly unmixed race of dark, long headed
men live. have, unlike Sicily or Gard. pro-
duced no poets Wherever, on the other
hand. we find land where two unlike
races. each of fine quality, have become
iutermingled and are in process OF fusion,
there we find a breed of men who have left
their mark on the world and have given
birth to great poets and artists. Such are
the men of Sicily, race compounded OF
the most various elements from east ana
north. which has produced and is today
nroducing so large share of the genius OF
the Italian peninsula.
Such are the fair and tall but broad
headed men of Lorraine, cross between
Celt and Teuton. Such are the lowland
Scotch on the border land between Gael and
Saxon. Such well tempered breeds have
been Welded by Normandy and Tuscany
and Swabia. We know little of the phys
ical anthropology of the ancient Greek. but
If is certain that one of his most character
istic types was the tall, fair man we know
in the north, and the geographical anc
/ geological characteristics of Greece present
in perfection the conditions which enable
VARYING races to settle and develop In thu
l closest proximity to one another.
Great Britain and Ireland were placed
by a happy chance, broadside on to the in
!. vasion of the fair race. The elongated is
. lands thus presented the maximum OF op
:. uortunity for intercourse between the tw
!. / races. Even at the present time the proc
:. ess of fusion is still going on. The com
! paratively fair race extends along the eas
!, coasts of both islands, and the comparative
ly dark race along the west coasts. The II
. lands form, therefore, well arranged pal
4 of compact electric batteries for exploslv
4 fusion of the two elements. Both races al
4 necessary for the production OF imaginatiy
= genius, at all events, for 1t is mistake
!" suppose that high imaginative genius Is
/, characteristic Of the unmixed dark races.
n In DIR. Beddoe's map Of the British isle
II showing what he terms the index OF nigre
cence, one solitary islet Of the dark rat
. only may be seen in England, east OF Il
> Welsh border and apparently at one tin
- ioined to it. This islet is in Warwickshi
that is, in the county Of Shakespear
MiIton's family belonged to neighborir
county, and Milton himself, we know, hi
Welsh blood in his veins. Out OF the pli
of these two races has come all that Is fine
in English imaginative genius. --Atlant
1 Monthly.