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do the Saxons seem to have had any influence upon 

 her destinies, but the Danes and Norsemen poured 

 in a contingent of Teutonism, which has been large- 

 ly supplemented by English and Scotch efforts. 



What, then, is the value of the ethnological 

 difference between the Englishman of the western 

 half of England and the Irishman of the eastern 

 half of Ireland ? For what reason does the one de- 

 serve the name of a " Celt," and not the other? 

 And further, if we turn to the inhabitants of the 

 western half of Ireland, why should the term 

 " Celts " be applied to them more than to the in- 

 habitants of Cornwall? And if the name is ap- 

 plicable to the one as justly as to the other, why 

 should not intelligence, perseverance, thrift, indus- 

 try, sobriety, respect for law, be admitted to be 

 Celtic virtues? And why should we not seek for 

 the cause of their absence in something else than 

 the idle pretext of " Celtic blood "? 



I have been unable to meet with any answers to 

 these questions. 



V. The Celtic and the Teutonic dialects are 

 members of the same great Aryan family of lan- 

 guages; but there is evidence to show that a non- 

 Aryan language was at one time spoken over a 

 large extent of the area occupied by Melanochroi in 

 Europe. 



The non-Aryan language here referred to is the 

 Euskarian, now spoken only by the Basques, but 

 which seems in earlier times to have been the Ian- 



