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point of view, however, such a belief is absolutely 

 untenable. The existing English people is certainly 

 not a pure Teutonic race, nor anything like one. 

 It is a mixture, partly Teutonic, partly Celt-Eus- 

 karian ; and to this fixed ethnological fact the 

 history must somehow or other be accommodated. 

 Every competent anthropologist, from the days of 

 Phillips and Thurnam to the days of Professors 

 Huxley and Eolleston, has consistently maintained 

 that thesis. It is impossible to twist the evidence of 

 plain modern facts to suit the supposed history, but 

 it is very easy to reconstruct the history so as to 

 accord with the existing facts. 



The earliest English settlements were undoubtedly 

 made along the coasts of Kent, Sussex, East Anglia, 

 and Yorkshire. In Sussex, it seems as though the Saxon 

 invaders did really drive away almost all the " Welsh" 

 into the forest of the Weald, where their descendants 

 may still, perhaps, be found; but elsewhere the 

 Britons appear to have been partially subdued and 

 enslaved. In Kent, where a body of Jutes landed, 

 the dark type is still quite common; while in old 

 interments of the heathen age, Jute and Briton are 

 still recognised side by side, the anatomical peculiari- 

 ties of their skulls being distinctly recognisable to a 

 technical eye. In the plain of Yorkshire, Professor 

 Phillips long ago pointed out that two very different 

 types of physique still prevail, the one tall and light, 

 of English or Danish origin ; the other short, squat, 

 dark, and black-eyed, of British or Euskarian origin. 



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