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346 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY

author is Ammon, Penka, or Wilser, the image is that of the typical globe-trotter from England or the " Uncle Sam " of the Yankees — lank-bodied, dolichocephalic, leptoprosopic, usually blond, adventurous, and aggressive. In my view, both these types were represented among the Aryans, but the dominant classes among them, the builders of the Aryan civilization, were of the type of " Uncle Sam," or, to use the terminology most suitable from the anthropological point of view, were of the race H. Europtsus.

Georges Vacher de Lapouge. Rennes, France.