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MENTAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERS IN RACE STUDY.—In the February issue of Discovery, Prof. H. J. Fleure discusses the influence of racial on mental characters. This region is, as he remarks, still uncharted by science, and the discussion is difficult because the material still remains to be collected. But racial peculiarities are strangely persistent, as, for example, in Wales, where the predominant type is in all probability due to descent. with modification, from the early Neolithic inhabitants, though it has been modified by emigration. At any rate, he rightly protests against the too common habit of treating mental characters, be it of French, Germans, or Britons, in the mass. “In each national group are many racial mosaics, and similar groups of characters occur in all. There are differences of social expression and lack of expression connected with social and historical facts, and these are apt to vary from century to century.” But behind all these there are correlations of physical characters with psychical characters which at present we are unable to correlate scientifically.
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Research Items. Nature 111, 268–269 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111268a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111268a0