176 THE ENGLISH PEOPLE. 



mouth, Chatham, Brighton, and tlie whole popu- 

 lous metropolitan area. As for the Iiisii, they are 

 numerous everywhere, but especially in Bristol, 

 London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, and 

 Shellield. The natural cousequenee of this slow 

 and peaceful return-wave of the conquered Celt 

 uprui the CQn(piering Saxon has been of course 

 largely to increase the dark aboriginal element in 

 our population and to swamp the light and purely 

 Aryan element. Moreover, the C'elt — or, in 

 other words, tiie mixed dark race — increases and 

 multiplies much faster than his fair brother, th«i 

 Saxon ; so that at the present day there can ht 

 little doubt that the dark type on the whole pre- 

 douiinates over the fair, taking one part of the 

 countrv witli another throuijhout the whole of the 

 British Islands. It may be added that close ob- 

 servation among distinguished meii of the present 

 day does not by an}' means bear out the common 

 but probably groundless belief in the mental su- 

 periority of the lighter type. 



