[1263] "A Last Contribution to Scottish Ethnology," Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst. XXXVIII. 1908.
[1264] "The Geographical Distribution of Anthropological Types in Wales," Journ. Roy. Anthr. Inst. XLVI. 1916.
[1265] For the explanation see W. Z. Ripley, The Races of Europe, 1900, p. 322 ff.
[1266] W. Z. Ripley, loc. cit. p. 329.
[1267] "The Frenchman, the German, the Italian, the Englishman, to each of whom his own literature and the great traditions of his national life are most dear and familiar, cannot help but feel that the vernacular in which these are embodied and expressed is, and must be, superior to the alien and awkward languages of his neighbours." L. Pearsall Smith, The English Language, p. 54.
[1268] See above p. 455. T. Rice Holmes points out that the Aquitani were already mixed in type. Caesar's Conquest of Gaul, 1911, p. 12.
[1269] See above p. 454.
[1270] That is, the languages whose affirmatives were the Latin pronouns hoc illud (oil) and hoc (oc), the former being more contracted, the latter more expanded, as we see in the very names of the respective Northern and Southern bards: Trouvères and Troubadours. It was customary in medieval times to name languages in this way, Dante, for instance, calling Italian la lingua del si, "the language of yes"; and, strange to say, the same usage prevails largely amongst the Australian aborigines, who, however, use both the affirmative and the negative particles, so that we have here no- as well as yes-tribes.
[1271] S. Feist points out that two physical types were recognised in antiquity, one dark and one fair, and reference to red hair and fair skin suggests Celtic infusion. Kultur, Ausbreitung und Herkunft der Indogermanen, 1913, p. 365.
[1272] Science Progress, p. 159.