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Title: Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View
Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford
university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919

Author: Arthur Keith

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_Nationality and Race_

_From an Anthropologist's Point of View_

BEING THE

ROBERT BOYLE LECTURE

DELIVERED BEFORE THE

_OXFORD UNIVERSITY JUNIOR SCIENTIFIC CLUB_

_On November 17, 1919_

BY

ARTHUR KEITH, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.

HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK
TORONTO MELBOURNE CAPE TOWN BOMBAY
1919

PRINTED IN ENGLAND
AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

NATIONALITY AND RACE

FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGIST'S POINT OF VIEW

NATIONALITY AND RACE IN BOYLE'S TIME

It was during the lifetime of Robert Boyle that our forefathers began to
come into close contact with the races and nationalities of the outer
world. When he was born in County Cork in the year 1627, small and
isolated bands of Englishmen were elbowing Red Indians from the eastern
sea-board of North America; before his death in London in 1691, at the
age of sixty-four, he had seen these pioneer bands become united into a
British fringe stretching almost without a break from Newfoundland to
Florida. Neither he nor any one else in England could then have guessed
that in less than two centuries the narrow fringe of colonists would
have spread from shore to shore, thus carpeting a continent with a new
people. It was in his time, too, that English merchants and sailors made
a closer acquaintance with the peoples of India, of the Far East, and
with the sea-board natives of Africa and of South America. We have only
to turn to the six splendid volumes i