historic times, 41
PITT RIVERS, general, soldier, and savant, 14
PROFANITY. The Normans "fond of oaths."--Rollo and Carolus Stultus, 63
a regulator of the nerves, 71
Ben Briler damned.--Desha on corporations, 68
Colonel Robert Blanchard and the "burnt cork" minstrels. Description
of the entertainment.--"Hell's fire, Bob."--Conditions of life in
the early West recalling the times of the Plantagenet kings (Barrett
Wendell), 69, 70
"damned Yankee"--the two words fused by the fires of war, 64
early Kentuckians (like Shakespeare's soldier) "full of strange
oaths," 64
fireside swearing in the auld lang syne, 67
General William Nelson.--His strong swearing instincts, 72
"God dern" not a Virginian oath, 74
imprecation upon a seller of inherited slaves.--Parody on famous
line from Villon.--The dusky bondsmen of the past, 67
King William's oath at Alençon--Profanity of the Virgin Queen.--"A
very drab."--"The Virginians addicted to oaths"
(Fordham).--Attenuated oaths, 65
Pecksniff's "wooden damn," 73
Stonewall Jackson.--Jubal Early.--Governor Scott, of
Kentucky.--Uncle Toby's oath.--Bolling Stith.--George Washington
(foot-note), 66
"The Blue Light Elder."--"Does a Puritan swear?" 72
the devout Moslem.--Jean Gotdam (Bardsley), 73
the Master's Call, 68
the modern passion for "good form," 70
the oath in court.--The vulgar "cuss-word."--The conversational
"swear," 71
the slinking figure of the iconoclast, 74
Washington, when deeply angered, _swore_.--The Attorney-General of
Charles II "damns the souls" of the Virginian Commissioners to
stimulate their commercial instincts, 75
QUATRAIN. (A Tennysonian Parody), 18, 134
RACE between Wagner and Grey Eagle, 43
RACIAL TRANSFORMATION. In England; Ireland; France; the United
States, 102
RETROSPECT, a brief, 135
ROLF GANGER, the Scandinavian rover.--The world before him where to
choose.--Scandinavian place-names, 108
ROMANES, GEORGE. Interpreter of Darwin, 14
description of appearance, 14
ROME, the Man of Ancient, 129
ROWENA, LADY, 31
SAINTE-BEUVE, the French critic. Reference to, 51
SALISBURY PLAIN.--Political birth of the English people, 78
researches among Scandinavians of Northern States.--Psychological
distinctions, 95
SANDYS, Sir Edwin. Author of the earliest political charters, 82
SAXON, The. Came directly from the southeastern shores and islands of
the North Sea, and is remotely of Gothic descent: The _Dane_ from
Denmark and the Danish islands, and is directly of Scandinavian
descent; the Norman, remotely Gothic, is immediately
Scandinavian.--The conclusion inevitable, not that we are
_Scandinavians_, but that we are deeply _Scandinavianized_, and that
there is a _preponderance_ of _Scandinavian_ blood in the English
race, 119
a regulative element lacking in Stevenson's duplex monstrosity,
_Jekyll_ and _Hyde_.--Norman and Saxon, 120
Mr. Bart Kennedy in London _Mail_: Racially, the Kentuckian _facile
princeps_, 120
Stevenson and Disraeli as writers, 120
the Kentuckian of Virginian descent a practically definite ethnical
product, 119
SCANDINAVIA and Kentucky. Relations between the two, 45
cranial measurements of Scandinavians, 56
SCANDINAVIAN origin of English people, 15
animated debate in Anthropological Section, 17
description of scene, 18
outline of theory, 17
Scandinavians infused a spirit of enterprise into the English people
they have never lost, 17
"Scot, the indomitable."--The Lowland Race, 24
sensational paper on (British Association), 17
SCANDINAVIAN population of the Northern States.--Their energy and
brains, 57
possible fusion of with Scandinavians of the Virginian States to
form a Continental empire.--Description of Scandinavians by
Maltebrun, 57
SCHOLARSHIP, philosophic, seldom narrow and never offensive, 128
SCOTT, SIR WALTER. His romances popular in Kentucky, 121
"SCYTHIAN hand and foot." A Scandinavian peculiarity transmitted to
the Norman and the Anglo-Dane, 57
"SEA ADVENTURE" wrecked on Devil's Island.--Captain Newport, 81
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. "Cromwellian Days," 81
SHAKESPEARE and Virginia, 81
Shakespeare's English friends, 82
Shakespeare's portrayal of the Anglo-Norman kings, 94, 95
SHALER, Professor (Harvard). Conclusions drawn from Gould's
measurements, 123
on "English Folk" in Kentucky, 25
SNORRO STURLESON, Laing's note to; quoted by Lytton, 56
SPECTACLE. The most dramatic in history (Du Chaillu), 129
SPENCER, HERBERT. Disappearance of Celtic type in the United
States, 105
ST. ALDEGONDE, the English "Swell," 134
STANTON, Captain Clarence L., 9
TAINE, Hippolyte. Description of English types--"Male" and
"Female."--"Carnivorous regime" or "Conformation of race"?--Mentions
more attractive types.--The women described by Shakespeare and
Dickens, and the noble historic type represented by William Pitt, 51-53
"erubescent bashfulness" a racial peculiarity, 54
TAYLOR, Isaac Canon, description of, 14
Impromptu parody by, 18
TURNER, Sir William. Reads paper at British Association (Newcastle,
'89) on the Weismann Theory.--First public appearance of the theory
in English scientific circles, 13, 55
Sir William did not accept the theory in full.--The hereditary
tendency in harmony with the theory of natural selection, 55
TYPES OF BEAUTY in Kentucky, 31
UNITED STATES, genesis of. Beginnings of a great conflict, 83
Anglo-Spanish conflict closed by Dewey and Schley, 83
first Republic in New World (Dr. Alexander Brown), 84
VIKINGS of the West. Control of the Mississippi, 85
California appropriated by force "under legal forms," 85
Cuba. Disastrous attempts at annexation. Prospective annexation on
the old lines, 85
passion for territorial expansion, 85
Vikings: who were they?, 86
VIRGINIA. Mason County settled by planters from, 2
"Piedmont" Virginia, 2
Virginia and the Virginian States, 39
Virginia peopled by English countryfolk (Anglo-Danes), 57
WALL, Mrs. Elizabeth Wall (Portrait), 7
Judge Garrett S. Wall, 9
WARREN, CHARLES DUDLEY. Visit to Kentucky, 51
WASHINGTON, George, of Anglo-Norman blood. Effigies of cavalier on
Great Seal of Confederate States, 48
Jared Sparks derives the _family_ of Washington from William de
Hertburn, who came into possession of "Wessington" (Washington),
County Durham, prior to 1183. The _family_ soon after assumed the
_name_ of Washington. The de Hertburns, who took the name of the
place in Durham, were a Norman family. A Teutonic clan (says
Freeman) gave the name _Wascingas_ to a village in the North of
England. From this name of a mark, or village, came the name of a
_family_--WASHINGTON; Ferguson deriving the name of Washington from
_Wass_ (an Anglo-Saxon), a derivation which Lower (one of the best
authorities) says is clearly untenable. Ferguson derives the name
Gustavus Vasa (a Swede) from _huass_, keen, bold (old Norse). Not an
unworthy etymon (he says) for _two_ great names--Gustavus Vasa and
Washington. The first _de Washington_ (says the judicious Lower) was
much more likely _a Norman_ who came in with the Conquest, and took
the name which came with the estate.
WENDELL, PROFESSOR BARRETT (Harvard), on early life in the West, 70
dominant traits of the Elizabethan Englishman--Puritan and
Virginian, 79, 80
his "Literary History of America," 78
WHITE, ANDREW D. Excerpt from address on "High Crime in the United
States," 61
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. Administrative methods and machinery, 77
"A lover of peace"; Roger of Wendover quoted, 89
descendant of Scandinavian jarls, 87
effect upon France, 91
embodied the characteristic traits of his race, 87
_English Unity_ permanently established upon Salisbury Plain. The
foundations of feudalism destroyed.--England made "one and
indivisible," 93
physical characteristics.--Vigor and endurance tested in wintry
campaigns, 88
progenitor of Virginian "Cavalier," 87
sovereign and subject cast in same mould.--The Norman a race
separate and apart, yet mingling with all.--Capacity for
colonization.--Their sovereign the most successful colonizer in
French history.--A lost art in France.--How to repair the loss, 90
the Norman's Conquest of England transferred the capacity for
colonization to the English race, 91
the Norman's system of administration rested upon a Saxon basis, 92
the wild king's passion for war and the chase, 88
William's gift of political "visualization," 94
he established a principle (_unity_); he "created a nation"; he
founded a line of Anglo-Norman Princes.--Shakespeare's dramatic
characterization of the _Anglo-Norman Kings_.--The significance
of his work, 94, 95
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR and Waltheof.--A judicial murder by a Norman
king.--A secret assassination by a Saxon Earl, 61
"WOLF LARSEN." Character depicted by Jack London, 32
a physical counterpart in "Bull" Nelson, 32
WOLSELEY, Lord. "The Americans a race of English-speaking
Frenchmen," 63
WYON. Anglo-Norman Englishman of Norman origin.--Engraver to the
Queen.--Engraved seal of the Confederacy, 48
"YORKSHIRE" blood in Kentucky. Transmitted traits, 44
George P. Marsh quoted, 45
peculiarities of dialect, 44
"YORKSHIRE," Imported. Gift from Commodore Morgan to Henry Clay, 44
_Zen Mays_ and _Poa Pratensis_, 49
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Transcriber's Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
Variations in spelling, hyphenation and accents are as in the original.
Page 67. "_Mais où sont les nègres a'antan?_" changed to d'antan.
Page 145. "_Baldwin_, Normandy, William Baldwinus, 1180; Robert, 1183;
England, 3116." 3116 changed to 1316.
Page 154. "_Boles_, a form of Boles." The 2nd Boles changed to Boels.
Italics are represented thus, _italic_.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Quest for a Lost Race, by Thomas E. Pickett