Changes

==Anthropology==

==Anthropology==

===Preponderance of Males===

===Predominance of Males===

Most noticeable is the great preponderance of males over females; indeed, this is one of the most serious problems confronting the Samaritans at the present time.<ref name="JE"/> Trustworthy evidence points to the fact that in modern times there has been but little if any intermarrying with the other peoples of Syria.<ref name="JE"/> The Samaritans themselves claim the perfect purity of their stock.<ref name="JE"/> Only as a last resort would they seek wives outside their own sect; and in this case they would naturally wish to marry among the people of the most closely allied religion, the [[Jews]].<ref name="JE"/> The Jews hate and despise the Samaritans with the greatest bitterness, and would do all in their power to prevent marriages between the two groups.<ref name="JE"/> Syrian Christians and Muslims would be equally averse to intermarrying with the Samaritans, both on account of their natural antipathy to this sect, and on account of the hardships which women must endure according to the rules of the Samaritan religion.<ref name="JE"/> These two factors, the natural inclination of the Samaritans to marry strictly among themselves, and the difficulty of forming marriages with other religious groups of Syria, would combine to preserve the purity of the stock, and at the same time to promote degeneracy by close interbreeding.<ref name="JE"/>

Most noticeable is the great preponderance of males over females; indeed, this is one of the most serious problems confronting the Samaritans at the present time.<ref name="JE"/> Trustworthy evidence points to the fact that in modern times there has been but little if any intermarrying with the other peoples of Syria.<ref name="JE"/> The Samaritans themselves claim the perfect purity of their stock.<ref name="JE"/> Only as a last resort would they seek wives outside their own sect; and in this case they would naturally wish to marry among the people of the most closely allied religion, the [[Jews]].<ref name="JE"/> The Jews hate and despise the Samaritans with the greatest bitterness, and would do all in their power to prevent marriages between the two groups.<ref name="JE"/> Syrian Christians and Muslims would be equally averse to intermarrying with the Samaritans, both on account of their natural antipathy to this sect, and on account of the hardships which women must endure according to the rules of the Samaritan religion.<ref name="JE"/> These two factors, the natural inclination of the Samaritans to marry strictly among themselves, and the difficulty of forming marriages with other religious groups of Syria, would combine to preserve the purity of the stock, and at the same time to promote degeneracy by close interbreeding.<ref name="JE"/>

==Physical characteristics==

==Physical characteristics==