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natural division of Flamboroughead, are also harder and 

 sharper featured, and keener witted, than those south- 

 ward, who may be styled our fen-bred. There is no 

 doubt more of Keltic blood mingled with the north di- 

 vision ; but the sea-born breeds have also been different, 

 those more northerly being Scandinavian, and the more 

 southerly consisting of the native of Lower Germany and 

 the heavy Fleming. The placid-looking Englishman, 

 more under the control of animal enjoyment, though 

 perhaps not so readily acute, excels in the no less valu- 

 able qualities of constancy and bodily powers of exer- 

 tion ; and when properly taught under high divdsion of 

 labour, becomes a better operative in his particular em- 

 ployment, and even will sometimes extend scientific dis- 

 covery further, than his more mercurial northern neigh- 

 bour, who, from his quick wits being generally in advance 

 of his manual practice, seldom attains to the dexterity 

 which results from the combination of continued bodily ac- 

 tion and restricted mental application. There exists, how- 

 ever, very considerable intellectual capacity in this Eng- 

 lish breed, but it too frequently is crushed under the pre- 

 ponderance of the animal part, affording that purest spe- 

 cimen of vulgarity, the English clown. But, independ- 

 ently of climate and breed, a great part of the low 

 Englander's obtuseness is referable to his being entailed 

 lord of the soil, under poor-rate law, contravening a na- 

 tural law (see note B), so that, when unsuccessful or out 

 of employment, he, without effort to obtain some new 

 means of independent subsistence, sinks into the parish 



