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means of passing the barriers which limited 

 their range. 



The beliefs of men are regulated by very 

 similar laws. In all cases where community 

 of belief exists, there has been free intercourse, 

 and we never find the same faith growing up 

 among distant and isolated nations. Eace is 

 also very closely connected with belief, for 

 religions will only grow upon their appropriate 

 toil. 



Nothing is more suggestive than the broad 

 distinction of character existing between the 

 Teutonic and Romano Celtic nations, such near 

 neighbours in Europe, and yet so different. 

 With few exceptions the former are Protestants 

 and the latter Catholics. It is probable that in 

 those parts of Germany which are Catholic, 

 there may be a larger foreign element : and this 

 is certainly the case in the Protestant portions of 

 France and Ireland. We will not speak here of 

 the Sclavonic races, for everything indicates that 

 they are the germs of a civilisation hereafter to 

 be developed,* and their religion rests at present 

 solely on authority, and has not yet become the 



* Cf. Jackson's " Ethnology and Phrenology/' 



