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maintain that any European people possessed inborn 

 intellectual superiority over the Jews. 



Facts of the same significance are encountered if 

 the scrutiny is restricted to the different races which 

 combine to make up any of the political aggregates 

 that have played a great part in the development 

 of Europe. The Saxon and Norman peoples have 

 probably, on the whole, performed a larger practical 

 part in the development of Great Britain and of 

 the British Empire than the Celtic peoples with 

 whom they have been so closely associated in 

 history. But so far as there are any grounds for 

 estimating separately the achievement of the differ- 

 ent races in Great Britain, it would represent a 

 claim in face of the facts of history to assert that 

 there is proof of any superior intellectual faculty 

 inborn in peoples of Saxon or Norman descent in 

 comparison with peoples of Celtic descent. 



Conditions of the same kind are encountered 

 amongst the races who make up the peoples of 

 Germany. In modern Germany it is often pointed 

 out by Germans themselves that notwithstanding 

 the ruling part played by Prussia in the evolution 

 of the modern German Empire the intellectual part 

 of the work has not rested to any corresponding 

 degree with natives of Prussia. The two men who 

 more than any others created the intellectual ethos 



