hair and eyes are common to both, and in both these physical
characters are correlated with certain mental traits, as, for
instance, a peculiar vivacity and warmth of disposition; but
they are high and low. In the latter sub-division the skin is
coarse in texture, brown or old parchment in colour, with
little red in it; the black hair is also coarse, the forehead
small, the nose projecting, and the facial angle indicative of
a more primitive race. One might imagine that these people
had been interred, along with specimens of rude pottery and
bone and flint implements, a long time back, about the
beginning of the Bronze Age perhaps, and had now come out of
their graves and put on modern clothes. At all events I don't
think a resident in Norfolk would have much difficulty in
picking out the portraits of some of his fellow-villagers in
Mr. Reed's Prehistoric Peeps.

The mother and her little ones were of the higher sub-type:
they had delicate skins, beautiful faces, clear musical
voices. They were Iberians in blood, but improved; purified
and refined as by fire; gentleized and spiritualized, and to
the lower types down to the aboriginals, as is the bright
consummate flower to leaf and stem and root.

Often and often we are teased and tantalized and mocked by
that old question:

Oh! so old--
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told--