The tinkler-gypsies . l. When he broke onecudgel on his enemies by his powerful arm, thetownspeople were ready to hand him the vindictive Taits rallied and renewed thecharge with unabated vigour: and everyonepresent expected that Kennedy would fall asacrifice to their desperate fury. A party ofmessengers and constables at last arrived to hisrelief, when the Taits were all apprehended andimprisoned; but, as none of the Gypsies wereactually slain in the fray, they were soon setat liberty. The battle was renewed at Eskdale Moor,when the Taits and Gordons appear to havebeen completel
The tinkler-gypsies . l. When he broke onecudgel on his enemies by his powerful arm, thetownspeople were ready to hand him the vindictive Taits rallied and renewed thecharge with unabated vigour: and everyonepresent expected that Kennedy would fall asacrifice to their desperate fury. A party ofmessengers and constables at last arrived to hisrelief, when the Taits were all apprehended andimprisoned; but, as none of the Gypsies wereactually slain in the fray, they were soon setat liberty. The battle was renewed at Eskdale Moor,when the Taits and Gordons appear to havebeen completely routed and driven from thedistrict in which they had attempted to travelby force. 416 The Tinkler-Gypsies. The Tinklers, as we have remarked, seldommarry out of their own caste, and so amongstTinklers we are apt to find purer blood of theancient tribes than amongst those who, withblood mixed by intermarriage, are entitled tocall themselves the titular, though nominal,heads and chief families of these ancient Kirk Yetholm, Headquarters of theScotch Gypsies. In a remarkable letter (juoted in the TimesHerbert Spencer is said to have addressed thefollowing advice to liaron Kaneko in reply to aquestion respecting the intermarriage offoreigners and Japanese : To your remaining question respecting theintermarriage of foreigners and Japanese, whichvou say is now very much agitated among ourscholars and politicians, and which you say is Mixed Racial Characteristics. 417 ?* one of the most difficult problems, my reply isthat, as rationally answered, there is no difficultyat all. It should be positively forbidden. Itis not at root a question of social philosophy. Itis at root a question of biology. There isabundant proof, alike furnished by intermarriageof human races and by the interbreeding ofanimals, that when varieties mingle beyond acertain slight degree tiie ?-esult is inevitably a badone in the long run. Is not that practically the result whichfollowed the intermarriage
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