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both philologists and anthropologists alike differed from the his- 

 torians, who held to Cfesar's view that the Gauls and the Celts 

 were all one. 



Still greater confusion arises if we attempt to discuss the 

 origin of the people of the British Isles, where this Celtic question 

 enters again. Thus the people of Ireland and Wales, of Cornwall 

 and the Scottish Highlands, together with the Bretons in France, 

 would all be Celtic for the linguist because they all spoke the 

 Celtic language. For the anthropologist, as we shall see, the 



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Breton is as far from the Welsh as in some respects tlie Welsh 

 are from the Scotch. 



It happened that the father of modern anthropology, the illus- 

 trious Paul Broca, having pre-empted the term Celt for the people 

 including most of the broad-headed type and its main crosses, all 

 the anthropologists have followed him. The linguists have re- 

 fused to yield their side, and still use the name in their own sense. 

 We shall not seek to solve the question. If we have shown what 

 confusion may result from the use of this term, we are content. 

 Our own view is that the linguists and the archaeologists are per- 

 haps better entitled to the name Celt; but that they should be 

 utterly denied the use of the word race. Be this as it may, we 

 shall invent a new term, or rather adopt one from M. de Lapouge, 



