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The Kelt or Gael. 13
haired children. These variations in colour
among European Aryans, where greatest, are due
to climatic effects, but are nowhere sufficient to
create a racial difference. Professor Virchow
finds that eleven per cent, of the Swiss, nineteen
per cent, of the Austrians, and thirty-one per
cent, of the rest of the Germans only, are fair ;
and Dr Beddoe says a brunette has ten chances
of getting married in England to a blonde's nine
chances, because the men persist in selecting the
dark-haired women for wives.