The Alpine race is a historical concept used in scientific racism as one of the three sub-races of the Caucasian race. The term is obsolete today, but was popular in the early 20th century.
Read more about Alpine Race: History, Physical Appearance, Geography and Origin, European Racial Types (Ripley)
Famous quotes containing the words alpine and/or race:
“I held a bayonet
that was for the earth of your stomach.
The belly button singing its puzzle.
The intestines winding like the alpine roads.
It was made to enter you
as you have entered me....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 9:11.