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MIXING OF RACES IN BRITAIN 371

were all relations : however hostile, they were all kinsmen, shedding kindred blood.”

It is thus evident that the terms Briton, British, English, Scot, Cymri, Welsh or Irish in their present-day use have largely lost their vacial sense and are now used mainly in their zafzonal sense. Thus a great proportion of those who proudly call themselves “ English”’ have little or no Angle or Saxon blood in their veins, and are not strictly entitled to call themselves “ English” at all. And similarly with Scot, Cymri and British properly so-called: a person born in Scotland even of remote native ancestry is not necessarily of the Scot race properly so-called ; but is more often than not of the non-Aryan physical type of the Pict or “ Celt.” Yet, although so composite in race, the British nation, through its insularity, is even less heterogeneous in composition than most of the many continental countries which have secured or clamour for self-determination on “racial” grounds, an idea derived from the spread of Western Aryan “ Nationalism.”

The aggregate Aryan racial element in the population of the British Isles appears to be considerably smaller than what has hitherto been assumed, owing to the original Aryan immigrant stock having been so relatively small in proportion to the mam body of the aboriginal population, with their greater prolificness. Yet it is now widely distributed in its relatively pure individual strain, and not confined to one particular class in society. Although the Aryans originally formed the aristocracy of the British Isles, the Aryan type, as evidenced by the Aryan physique and confirmed by Aryan patronymics, appears to be found nowadays more frequent in the ranks of the middle-class society.* Certainly the existing aristocracy, which has been

+ Sir F. Palgrave, English Commonwealth, 1, 35-

* As regards Colour, Prof. Parsons finds, on revising and supplementing 3eddoe's statistics, that in the modern population of Britain “ the upper classes [including the middle class] have an altogether lower index of nigrescence than the lower’’ (J.R.A.I., 1920, 182)—that is to say, the upper and middle classes are fairer than the lower. Regarding Red Hair, which so frequently accompanies a fair and freckled skin and blue or light eyes, he finds it “is more common in the upper [including middle] than an the lower classes ”’ (ib., 182). 7