

xxi "NATIONALITIES "& POLITICS 255 



from Cambronne, the Bruces from Yorkshire, the 

 Stewarts from Shropshire, the Hamiltons from Hamble- 

 ton in Buckinghamshire, the Lindsays from Lindsay in 

 Essex, the Sinclairs from St. Clair in Normandy, the 

 Comyns from Comines in Flanders. Some even of the 

 Highland clans are Teutonic. The Gordons, says 

 M'Laughlan, the Frasers, the Chisholms, etc., are 

 without any trace of a connexion with the Celts, and 

 originally without doubt of purely Teutonic blood. So 

 are the Macaulays, while Maclaughlans, Kennedys, 

 Macdonalds and Munroes are Irish, and the Elliotts, 

 Frasers, Maxwells, Mathesons and Keiths, English. 



" The great heroes of Scottish history," says Bon wick, 

 " Bruce and Wallace, were of English origin." The 

 Lothians, says Hume, were " entirely peopled with 

 Saxons." 



Thus then, in Scotland, as in England, the east is 

 mainly Teutonic, the west mainly Celtic. 



Huxley and Beddoe have both pointed out, and it 

 will be generally admitted, that the people north and 

 south of the line dividing England and Scotland are 

 practically identical. On the other hand, so far from 

 Scotland being inhabited by a single homogeneous 

 people, the struggle between the east and west was 

 bitter and prolonged. A MacDonald burnt Elgin in 

 1420 ; and, says Burton, " It will be difficult to make 

 those not familiar with the tone of feeling in Lowland 

 Scotland at that time believe that the defeat of Donald 

 of the Isles (at Harlaw) was felt as a more memorable 

 deliverance even than that of Bannockburn." 



I maintain, therefore, that the defence of Home Rule, 

 on the ground that there are four " real nationalities " 

 in our islands is entirely without foundation. If, 

 however, we are to be divided at all according to blood, 

 the division would not be into England, Scotland, 

 Ireland and Wales. The main division in Great Britain 

 would be not from east to west, but from north to south ; 

 the Saxon division would include the greater portion of 

 the east of England, the east of Ireland and of Scotland ; 

 the Celtic division would comprise most of the west of 

 Ireland and west of Scotland, with Wales and Cornwall ; 

 the Scandinavian the north of Scotland, several maritime 

 districts on the west, Westmoreland, Cumberland and 

 Pembroke, while the extreme south-west of Ireland 



