ON NAME AND EACE IN ENGLAND. 
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great races occupying England and Scotland at the present 
time are, as a rule, stamped in the names which the individuals 
of the races bear. 
When now we look at the pure Saxon, he is as he ever was. 
He is strong of body, fair of complexion, truthful, industrious, 
orderly, slow, sure, retentive, courageous, firm, and by com- 
parison with the other races stupid. He fights to the death, 
and does not much fear to die ; he loves devotedly, but his love 
is confined to his own immediate circle ; he hates as intensely 
as he loves, but he hesitates to hate and confines hatred to a very 
few objects, his slow perception preventing him from extending 
widely his bonds either of love or hate. He wanders the earth, 
liking a home, but caring little where he finds it so long as it 
is comfortable and isolated ; he is social but reserved, and abhors 
being inspected or overlooked. He paints little, sings little, 
has very small admiration for other men, and as small a con- 
tempt. His belief is in himself, not from any kind of self- 
satisfaction or active sense of his own importance, but from a 
want of consciousness that anyone else is necessary for his sup- 
port ; to the last of his life he does not foresee, but rather 
tumbles into, death. Politically he would level the social 
earth of distinctions as he would the physical earth of trees 
or rocks or mountains, caring nothing for the natural or artistic 
forms he has brought to the dust. He is, in fact, the rude 
pioneer of all the other races of the earth ; he serves them all, 
asking of them no homage, and offering none ; the other 
races follow him in his course, improve his work, and hold him 
ever in watchful awe. 
These are the typical characteristics of the Saxon man, and, 
varied only in regard to sex, of the Saxon woman. 
The race forms the mass of the English people. Caring little 
for rule or ruling power, and entering sparsely into what is 
called the governing class of the country, it nevertheless rules 
all classes. It is the muscular industry of the country, 
seizing invention ; it deals with the solid substantive materials 
of the earth, and it takes mainly, to itself individually, the 
name either of the thing or of the work with which it is 
occupied. 
When now we look at the Celt we see him still as he ever 
was. He is a strong, brilliant man, more active than the Saxon, 
but wanting Saxon machinery of body and Saxon will for steady 
labour. A man of quick temper, he is easily led into passion of 
mirth, or of anger, or of grief, and easily led out of either ; loving 
and hating by turns the same object ; ingenious in work and per- 
ceptive ; quick to learn, and analytical. At home he is disorderly 
and improvident. Eeady at any time to fight, he cares little, 
comparatively, for the object of the contest. Hot so truthful 
