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THE MIXED RACES IN BRITAIN 375

face of the Aryan type which has been remarked by Sir Arthur Keith. And the relative stature of many of the individuals of the darker mixed race tends to become increased, and to give in the case of the admixture with the Alpine or “ Germanic” type a tallish and relatively vound-headed dark “‘ Celtic’’ type in some cases.1

On the mental character and psychology and temperamental predispositions of this new mixed race, the effect of this fusion of the diverse racial blood, with broadening of the Pictish brain, is not inconsiderable. It should be expected to bridge over to some extent and minimize the latent racial antagonisms between the respective parent races. This interbreeding is supposed to unite as compensatory benefits certain desirable temperamental traits which are possessed by one or other of the parent races and are absent in the other. Thus the “ Celtic”’ or Pictish race is usually credited with being passionate and the sole possessor of that emotional trait popularly called ‘‘ Celtic fire,” though also possessing fatalistic traits tending to retard progress, both of which are alleged to be more or less absent in the Aryan type.

The psychological and temperamental contrast between the “Celtic,” or Keltic, and the Aryan races in Britain has been thus summarized by a leading anthropologist :—

“ The Kelt is still a Kelt, mercurial, passionate, vehement, impulsive, more courteous than sincere, voluble or eloquent, fanciful if not imaginative, quick-witted and brilliant rather than profound, elated with success, but easily depressed, hence lacking in steadfastness.”

The Aryan type, according to the same authority, still remains

* Dr. Beddoe describes the result reached by this mixing of types at the period of the Roman occupation as in the skulls of the Romano-British interments. “* These skulls are intermediate in length and breadth between the long-barrow and the round-barrow forms; they have the prominent occiput [back of head] of the former with some degree of the parietal dilatation fround- or broad-headedness] of the latter. . . . This character belongs to neither of the other types but seems to me a probable result of their partial fusion.’’ (B.R.B., 18). For a much later period, comprising one or two centuries past, a large series of skulls from an old graveyard on the Celtic-speaking borderland at Glasgow has recently been analysed by Prof. T. H. Bryce and Dr. J. Young and discloses amongst other things the broader brow and head of this mixed racial type in Scotland. See Trans. R.S. Edin., 1911. :