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Show Peace cn Enrth Belief of an C'd French Rac? The I Basques of t he I'y ranees section of France are on o'.d race which has outlived the Eoman empire, the D;iiU ages, feudalism and monarchy. They are thrifty, hard-working farmers :md fishermen with a simple system of very local democratic self-government. They are strong, simple, warm-hearted, physicallv sound and comely, and above all life-loving. While other races and social organizations around them have risen and fallen, they have never had a king, a tyrant, an aristocracy aris-tocracy or a revolution. They seem to be very religious and although they are hot-blooded and Impulsive, they I have never taken a single aggressive I step against a neighbor in warfare. j Hay F. Hendrix. |