Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 44.—Georgians. that smaller darker Kelts like the modern Welsh andBretons existed then as well. As a help in clearing up thisproblem, which so affects our own ancestry, Huxley suggeststhat the fair-whites were the original stock, and that thesecrossing with the brown races of the far south may have III.] RACES OF MANKIND. Ill given rise to the various kinds of dark-whites. Howeverthis may be, such mixture of the white and brown racesseems indeed to have largely formed the population ofcountries where they meet. The ]\Ioo
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 44.—Georgians. that smaller darker Kelts like the modern Welsh andBretons existed then as well. As a help in clearing up thisproblem, which so affects our own ancestry, Huxley suggeststhat the fair-whites were the original stock, and that thesecrossing with the brown races of the far south may have III.] RACES OF MANKIND. Ill given rise to the various kinds of dark-whites. Howeverthis may be, such mixture of the white and brown racesseems indeed to have largely formed the population ofcountries where they meet. The ]\Ioors of North Africa,and many so-called Arabs who are darker than white men,. Fig. 45.—Swedes. may be thus accounted for. It is thus that in Indiamillions who speak Hindu languages show by their tint thattheir race is mixed between that of the Aryan conquerorsof the land and its darker indigenes. An instructive in-stance of this very combination is to be seen in the 112 ANTHROPOLCGY. [chap. Gypsies, low-caste wanderers who found their way fromIndia and spread over Europe not many centuries 46, a Gypsy woman from Wallachia, is a favourabletype of these latest incomers from the East, whose broken-down Hindu dialect shows that part of their ancestry
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