In point of fact, in this matter of patriotic animus there appears to be a wider divergence, temperamentally, between individuals within any one of these communities than between the common run in any one community and the corresponding common run in any other.

But even such divergence of individual temper in respect of patriotism as is to be met with, first and last, is after all surprisingly small in view of the scope for individual variation which this European population would seem to offer.
* * * * * These peoples of Europe, all and several, are hybrids compounded out of the same run of racial elements, but mixed in varying proportions.

On any parallel of latitude--taken in the climatic rather than in the geometric sense--the racial composition of the west-European population will be much the same, virtually identical in effect, although always of a hybrid complexion; whereas on any parallel of longitude--also in the climatic sense--the racial composition will vary progressively, but always within the limits of the same general scheme of hybridisation,--the variation being a variation in the proportion in which the several racial elements are present in any given case.

But in no case does a notable difference in racial composition coincide with a linguistic or national frontier.

But in point of patriotic animus these European peoples are one as good as another, whether the comparison be traced on parallels of latitude or of longitude.