In the Latin word
malus15 (to which I juxtapose me/lav)
16 the common man could be char-
acterized as the dark-skinned and especially the dark-haired man (‘hic
niger est –’),17 as the pre-Aryan occupant of Italian soil who could most
easily be distinguished from the blond race which had become dominant,
namely the Aryan conquering race, by its colour; at any rate, I have found
exactly the same with Gaelic peoples, – fin (for example in Fin-gal), the
word designating the aristocracy and finally the good, noble, pure, was
originally a blond person in contrast to the dark-skinned, dark-haired
native inhabitants. By the way, the Celts were a completely blond race; it
is wrong to connect those traces of an essentially dark-haired population,
which can be seen on carefully prepared ethnological maps in Germany,
malus15 (to which I juxtapose me/lav)
16 the common man could be char-
acterized as the dark-skinned and especially the dark-haired man (‘hic
niger est –’),17 as the pre-Aryan occupant of Italian soil who could most
easily be distinguished from the blond race which had become dominant,
namely the Aryan conquering race, by its colour; at any rate, I have found
exactly the same with Gaelic peoples, – fin (for example in Fin-gal), the
word designating the aristocracy and finally the good, noble, pure, was
originally a blond person in contrast to the dark-skinned, dark-haired
native inhabitants. By the way, the Celts were a completely blond race; it
is wrong to connect those traces of an essentially dark-haired population,
which can be seen on carefully prepared ethnological maps in Germany,