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over the great Eurasiatic plains westward, and 

 speaking Aryan dialects, gradually invaded the 

 territories of the Melanochroi. The Xanthochroi, 

 who thus came into contact with the Western 

 Melanochroi, spoke a Celtic language; and that 

 Celtic language, whether Cymric or Gaelic, spread 

 over the Melanochroi far beyond the limits of 

 intermixture of blood, supplanting Euskarian, just 

 as English and French have supplanted Celtic. 

 Even as early as Caesar's time, I suppose that the 

 Euskarian was everywhere, except in Spain and in 

 Aquitaine, replaced by Celtic, and thus the Celtic 

 speakers were no longer of one ethnological stock, 

 but of two. Both in Western Europe and in 

 England a third wave of language in the one 

 case Latin, in the other Teutonic has spread over 

 the same area. In Western Europe, it has left a 

 fragment of the primary Euskarian in one corner 

 of the country, and a fragment of the secondary 

 Celtic in another. In the British islands, only 

 outlying pools of the secondary linguistic wave 

 remain in Wales, the Highlands, Ireland, and the 

 Isle of Man. If this hypothesis is a sound one, it 

 follows that the name of Celtic is not properly 

 applicable to the Melanochroic or dark stock of 

 Europe. They are merely, so to speak, secondary 

 Celts. The primary and aboriginal Celtic-speaking 

 people are Xanthochroi the typical Gauls of the 

 ancient writers, and the close allies by blood, 

 customs, and language, of the Germans.. 



