The Theory of a North European Cradle

The great majority of investigators from Omalius de Halloy and Latham onwards, who have accepted the doctrine of an European cradle-land, have located it somewhere on the great plain that extends from the North Sea to the Caspian. Not only does this region fulfill the conditions postulated by linguistic palaeontology better than any other, it was also the area of characterization where the tall blonde stock, the European race par excellence, was evolved. ¹ And all advocates of a cradle in Europe who have appealed to anthropological results at all, have conceived of the original Aryans as blondes.