Show of different people eyes have always been regarded as a sure tribal characteristic tacitus for example describes the germans as fierce with bine eyes and red hair the belts celts are mentioned as being swarthy skinned and black eyed the eanls are red haired and light eyed while abo nu baans the turks tha egyptians and the italians have always been spoken of as the dark eyed races these peculiar ties have not changed even today thea people of the temperate zones have gen brally light colored eyes while those of the torrid and the frigid zones are ally dark or even black of the races in particular the only one that can be said to be light eyed is the caucasian and even in this race the eyes are by no means uniform in point of color the whole period of human history goes to prove that the light haired bine eyes races are capable of the highest de gree of civilization but it does not by any means follow that the highest degree of civilization is confined to people of blonde complexion there was a time when a blue eyed person was rarely seen and today seven eighths of the worlds inhabitants hava dark eyes lavater when discussing the eye as a feature in national physiognomy gave the following as the results of his observations the italians have small eyes the germans light colored eyes surrounded by many wrinkles the english strong open steadfast eyes and the swiss eyes thai are very dull looking st louis republic |