28 THE IRISH PEOPLE. 



thus : " These two Irish groups, which are so dif- 

 ferent, that one reminds us of the very lowest tribes 

 of Australia,"* and the other bears comparison with 

 any of the white races, are they of the same race? 

 No, we will say to Dr. Hall. The Irishman of the 

 county Meath alone represents the ancient stock. 

 The Irishman of the Fews,f subjected to quite dif- 

 ferent conditions of existence, has become altered, 

 and has formed a new race, derived, indeed, from 

 the first, but now in harmony with his deplorable 

 environment. There are now in these neighbouring 

 districts two races in place of one.| 



(8.) Herr Karl Vogt quotes Hall and Quatre- 

 f ages, and remarks : " Let us examine this point. 

 And first we must remember that party spirit 

 speaks here, painting the condition of the Irish in as 

 gloomy colours as possible, and probably assuming 

 some few ragged and broken-down beggars as the 

 type of the whole race. But, assuming the descrip- 

 tion to be correct, it is so imperfect and defective 

 that we can scarcely conceive how such a cautious 

 writer as Quatrefages can find in it a description of 



* Rappdle les peuplades les plus inferieures de I' Australie. 



t The foreigners call this Flewj in those sweeping assertions 



t Quatrefages' L' UniM de. V Eapece. Humaine, p. 227, ed. 1861. 

 Devay believed, and quoted this fiction in his book, Du Danger 

 des Maridgea Conmnguins. 



Vogt's Lectures on Man, Lect. xv., pp. 427-429. 



