Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-02-15
VALUE OF MIXED BLOOD.
Nations Where Races Havo Becn Fused


Nations Where Races Havo Becn Fused
Always tho Greatest.
Looking at the matter somewhat broadly
and emitting minor variations, 1t may be
said that two vigorous but somewhat wide
ly divergent races, or group of races, now
occupy Europe and the lands that have
been peopled from Europe The one race
is tall, fair and usually long headed; the
tother short, dark and usually broad headed.
Since the dawn of European history at
least and with special vigor about 1000
years ago the tall, fair, energetic race has
been shed as seminal principle from the
northeast of Europoover great part of the
continent held by darker and perhaps
more civilized race.
The physical characteristics of Europe
have been very favorable to the spread and
fusion of these fine races, and the outcome
has been the strongest and most variously
gifted breed of men that the world has ever
seen. 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 it's purest form, has produced no imagi-
native genius. Auvergne, where the dark,
broad headed race may be found in great
purity, has in like manner produced a
vigorous but an undistinguished breed Of
men.
Corsica and Pyrenees-O rientales, where
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 q land where two unlike
races, each of fine quality, have become
| intermingled and are in process of fusion,
there we find breed of men who have left
their mark on the world and have given
birth to great poets and artists. Such arc
the men of Sicily, race compounded OF
the most various clements from east and
north, which has produced and is today
producing 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 arc the lowland
Scotch on the border land between Gael and
Saxon. Such well tempered breeds have
been yielded by Normandy and Tuscany
and Swabia. We know little of the phys
ical anthropology of the ancient Greek, but
it is certain that one of his most character
istic types was the tall, fair man we know
in the north, and the geographical and
geological characteristics of Greece present
| in perfection the conditions which enable
varying races to settle and develop in the
closest proximity to one another.
Great Britain and Ireland were placed
by happy chance, broadside on to the in
vasion of the fair race. The elongated is
lands thus presented the maximum of op
portunity for intercourse between the two
I races. Even at the present time the proc
ess of fusion is still going on. The com
paratively fair race extends along the east
coasts of both islands, and the comparative
ly dark race along the west coasts. The is
lands form, therefore, well arranged pail
of compact electric batteries for explosive
fusion of tho two elements. Both races arr
necessary for the production of imaginative
genius, at all events, for it is mistake tx
suppose that high imaginative genius is
characteristic of the unmixed dark races.
In Dr. Beddoe's map of the British isles
showing what he terms the index Of nigres
cence, one solitary islet of the dark rae
only may be seen in England, east OF tn
Welsh border and apparently at one tim
Joined to it. This islet is in Warwickshir
that is, in the county of Shakespeare
Millions family belonged to q neighborinl
county, and Milton himself, we know, ha'
Welsh blood in his veins. Out of the pla.
of these two races has come oil that is fines
in English imaginative genius.-Atlanti
| Monthly.