TEUTONIC NATIONS is the general name under which are com prised the different nations of the Teutonic race. These are divided into three branches. The first branch contains the High Germans, to whom belong the Teutonic inhabitants of Upper and Middle Germany, those of Switzerland, and the greater part of the Germans of Hungary; it is subdivided into the Suabian and the Franeonian minor branches. The second is the Saxon branch, which is divided into three minor branches: the first of which contains the Frisians; the second, the Old Saxons or Low Germans, with the Dutch, the Flemings, and the Saxons of Transylvania.; and the third, the English, the Scotch, and the greater part of the inhabitants of the United States of North America. The third branch is the Scandinavian, to which belong the Icelanders, the Norwegians, the Danes, and the Swedes. It has been estimated, but on no very exact data, that nearly 100,000,000 individuals belong to the Teutonic race. The Germans amount to above 42,000,000, 33,000,000 of which live in Germany, the remaining 9,000,000 form a greater or less part of the population of East Prussia, of Switzerland, of Hungary, of Transylvania, of France, (in Alsace and north-mat Lorraine), of Russia (in the Baltic provinces, in the kingdom of Poland, in the Crimea, in Bessarabia, and in the German colonies in the environs of Saratov on the Volga), of the duchy of Sleswig, and of the United States of North America, especially Pennsylvania. The English amount to about 33,000,000, there being about 18,000,000 of English and Scotch in Great Britain and Ire land. nearly 3,000,000 in the English colonies, and 11,000,000 or 12,000,000 of Anglo-Americans in the United States. Tho number of the Frisians is about 130,000, in the province of West Friealand in Holland, in the islands in the German Ocean along the Dutch and the German shore, iu the Saterland (near Oldenburg), and in the islands along the west coast of the duchy of Sleswig. There are about 3,000.000 of Dutchmen in Holland and in her colonies and the Cape of Good Hope; and there are about 2,500,000 Flemings in the north part of Belgium, in the south part of Holland, and in the north-east part of France. The number of individuals belonging to the Scandinavian branch amounts to at least 0,000,000, among whom there are-50,000 Icelanders ; 1,500,000 Danes in Denmark, in her colonies, and in the north part of the duchy of Sleswig; 1,250,000 Norwegians; and about 3.200,000 Sweden in Sweden and in the present Russian province of Finland, especially along the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia, in the districts of Alio and Nyland, and on the Aland Islands, which are entirely inhabited by Swedes.
Light hair and blue eyes in the northern countries, and brown hair and brown or blue eyes in some of the southern countries, are chorea teriaties of the Teutonic race. Their stature is generally tall, although in those provinces where the Germans are mixed with Wends, Suablang, and Boherniruis, many of the people have the broad shoulders and the short square form of the north-western Slavoniaus.
The straight black hair of some Slavonian tribes also sometimes appears. The mixture of Germano with the south-west Slovenians, such as Wends and Croatians, whose stature exceeds that of the Wends and Bohemians, Is more difficult to be distinguished, the black straight hair and a darker complexion being almost the only indication of such a mixture. The mixture of Germans with Celts in Belgium and in the adjoining part of France has formed a tall race which differs from their Teutonic neighbours only in the dark colour of their hair and their black eyes. (PlatsS, ' Scenen aria dem Volksloben in llelgien.') it is very difficult to distinguish the descendants of English and Irish parents as belonging either to the Teutonic or the Celtic race, though it appears that wherever aquiline noses are seen among the lower classes they are a proof of Celtic origin, the true Teutonic nose not being aquiline, but either straight or curved only in its upper part. In general, also, the Teutonic forehead is broader between the temples than the Celtic. (Clement, ' Die Nordgermanische Welt;' Herder, 'Moen sir Philosophie der Geschiehte; voL 1) The moral and intellectual difference between the Teutonic nations is less remarkable than that which exists, between other European nations of the same race with one another. Capable of strong and violent passions, they do not easily lose their self-control, the intel lectual functions being more developed than in most other races. Southern nations, confounding liveliness of feeling with intensity, and nervous excitability with moral sensibility, have been deceived by the cool character of the Teutonic nations, and have accused them of indifference. But the most superficial examination will show their sensibility—a fact which is proved by their poetry. The Teutonic nations are less excitable than the Celtic, the Slovenian, and other races, but capable of deeper thought Southern nations have accom plished great things by sudden efforts; the Teutonic nations have reserved their enterprise for vast plane, which it requires centuries to carry into effect Thus they destroyed the Roman empire after a struggle of three centuries, and they formed new kingdoms in Europe upon new social principles, which have maintained their vigour to the present day. The Normans became powerful wherever the sea permitted them to effect a landing. The Germans, diminished in number after they had sent their swarms to Western Europa, turned back towards the east part of their country, then occupied by Slavonian nations, which they conquered, and Germanised upon a plan of coloni sation which enabled them to civilise the east of Europe. And lastly, the English colonies have spread over the world : their dominion in the east and in the west is the result of plans which imply more bold ness of conception, more prudence in execution, and more reflection, than the conquests of Alexander the Great and the ephemeral power of Napoleon.