46 On the Intrusion of the Germanic Races into Europe. 



penetrated eastward, as we have seen,* into Thrace, but passed 

 over into Asia Minor, where they peopled Galatia ; while, if 

 we hold to the true Kelticity of the Keltic element of the 

 Celtiberi of Spain, we may account for a similar overflow of 

 the Gallic Kelts into the Iberian peninsula. 



Thus we have the non-Indo-Germanic Phoenician, Punic, 

 Etruscan, and other Semitic elements, passing by the southern- 

 most route, from the shores of the Levant, into Southern 

 Europe, and consequently not diffused as from a common 

 centre, but occupying isolated and widely scattered positions. 

 The oldest branch of the great Indo-European family of 

 nations, the Gallic Kelts, follows by the southern land passagej 

 preceding the classic races, and contributing to them a large 

 portion of the philological elements by which they are known 

 to us. How far they may also have contributed to their 

 ethnological elements is uncertain. Whence, indeed, the 

 Hellenic stock is derived is still a problem scarcely yet at- 

 tempted to be solved. Was it derived from Italy to Greece, 

 as Dr. Latham inclines, not without reason, to believe (Ethnol. 

 of Europe, p. 97), or from Greece to Italy ? Was it the pro- 

 duct of an intermixture of Keltic and Pelasgic blood, or of 

 Pelasgo-Keltic and Semitic blood 1 Intermixture of blood, 

 not purity of race, seems the law of highest development in 

 the historic races ; and hence, perhaps, it is that the old Keltic 

 migration moved on westward and diffused itself over the 

 great central area of Transalpine Europe through long unre- 

 corded centuries, only making itself known by the shock with 

 which it was rent in pieces when it came into collision with 

 the younger historic races. Behind these Kelts came the 

 Scytho-Sarmatian stock, still occupying to a great extent its 

 original European area, though taking up so small and in- 

 significant a section of the historic page ; while the younger 

 Germanic stock, Jacob-like, seizing the birthright and the 

 portion of the elder, has overstepped it in the race, preoccu- 

 pied the area of the displaced Kelts, shared in the spoils, and 

 borne a prominent part in the reinvigoration of Southern 

 Europe; and now entering on the possession of this vast 

 continent of America, and of that other new world which lies 

 sheltered in the temperate zone of the southern hemisphere, 



