The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-07

fierce fe<venE Hfe IN rEe high qualify
O. their men OF arts and letters. and n
their utter inability TO combine 50 as
10 preserve order among themselves OF
to repeI outside invasion can not IN
fairly be compared with classic Greece
again Italy fell and the land was ruIed
Ey Spa1Lard OF Fre1chuzn or Aus
trian- and again in the nineteenth cell
TRY there came for the third time
wonderful new birth
C0otrazC this persistence Of the old
type in its Old home and IN certain
ands which it had conquered with It's
I&udS where It was intrusive, but where
1t al one time seemed as firmly es1ab-
Hshed as IN IEzly-certsirIIy a. IN SraIE
OF G4uL No more curious example or
TIE growth and disappearance Of 4 na-
ti0uaI type can be found than IN the
case OF the Graeco-Roman dominion IN
western Asia ard mort hem Erica All
told IT, extended over nearly a thou
sand years from the DAYS q AIexa7-
der TIL after the time Of HeracftuS.
Throughout these Lands there yet re
lain the ruins OF Inuunerzhle cities
WEIch tell how firmly rooted that do
nJfniOu Must once have been The ov-
erSh4dcWiEg and far-reachinE import
GEce Of what occurred Is sufficiently
shown by the familiar fact that the
New Testament was written in Greek
" laIe - rhs early Christians North A.
RIGA seemed as much a Latin land as
Sicily or the valley OF the Pc The in
trusLve peoples and their culture -four
ished IN the lands for a period twice
Is long as that which has elapsed since
modern history with the voyage Of Col
ILnrbuS, may fairly be said 70 have be-
gun; and than they WTthered like dry
grass before the fame Of the Arab in
vasIon- and their place knew them no
Erore- They overshadowed the ground;
they vanished. and the old types reap
Feared in their old homes. with beside
them 4 new type the Arab.
Much Is Unknown
Now, as to all these changes We
can at least be sure Of the main facts
We know that the HoIander remains
in Holland though the greatness OF
Holland has passed, we know that the
Latin blood remains IN Italy, whether
10 4 greater or less extent and that
the Latin culture has died out in the
African realm It once won. while II
has lasted in Spain and France. and
thence has extended itself 10 CONT
uents beyond the ocean We may not
know the causes Of the facts, save par
tally, but the facts themselves We do
know But there are other cases IN
which we are at present ignorant even
of the facts we do not know what
the changes really were still less the
hidden causes and meaning OF those
changes Much remains to be found
out before we can speak with any Ger
tzfutv as to whether some changes
mean the actual dying out or the mere
transformation Of types 1t t. for n
stance. astonishing how little perna-
nent change in the physical makeup OF
the people seems to have been worked
in Europe by the migratious Of the
races in historic times A tall fair
haired. IouE-skuIIed race Penstrates to
some southern country and establishes
& commonwealth The generations
PASS There is 10 violent revolution
no break in continuity Of history, moth
ing in the written records to Indicate
an epochruzkfuE change at any given
moment. and yet after time We IND
that the old type has reappearsd and
that the people OF the locality do not
substantially differ IN physical form
from the people Of other localities that
did not suffer such an Invasion Does
this mean that gradually the children
Of the invaders have dw1ndled ana
died out: or as the blood Is mixed
with the ancient blood. has there been
a change part reversion and part as
sfmfEarfor- to the ancient type N us
old surroundings Do tint Of skin
ewes and hair shape Of skull and
stature, change in the new environ
uerr 50 a. To be like those Of the
older people who dwell in this Ell
vfroumenr2 Do the intrusive races.
without change Of blood tend- under
the pressure Of their new surround
frzs. to change in type 50 as 70 re-
seuhIe the ancient people OF the land
Or. as the strains mingled has the
strain dwtndIed and vanished, from
caues as yet obscure7 Has the. blood
of the Lombard practically dISap pear
al from Italy and OF the VLStgoth from
Spain. or does il still flow in large
populations where the old physical
type has once more become Dominant
Here in England. the Iong-skuHed
rneu Of the long barrows. the short
sIxuIIed men of the round barrows.
have they blended or has one or the
other type actually died out; OF are
they merged in some older race which
thew seemingly suppIanted. OF have
thew adopted the tongue Of civilization
Of some later race which seemingly
destroyed them We can not say We
DO not know which Of the widely diff
fereut stocks now speaking Aryan
ton cues represents in physical chzrae-
tertstics the ancient Aryan type, nor
where the type originated nor how or
why It imposed its language On other
types nor how much or how little mix
tire of blood accompanied the change
Of tongue
National Growth and Decay.
The pheuO-er4 Of national growth
and decay. both those which can and
those which cannot be explained have
been peculiarly in evidence during the
four centuries that have gone by since
the discovery OF America and the
rounding Of the Cape OF Good Hope
These have been the four centuries If
BY far the most intense and constantly
acceIerztinE rapIdfty Of movement and
Development that the world has yet
seen The movement has covered al
the feds Of human activity It has
Witnessed an altogether uuexampled
suread OF civilized mankind over the
world As well as an altogether uuex-
zupIed advance in mans dominion
over nature and this. together with