ON NAME AND RACE IN ENGLAND. 
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gives his emotions full play in the varying services of the varying 
seasons. He prefers, in the mystical solemnities of religion, 
that he should he guided ; and so he maintains zealously what 
the Saxon would as zealously destroy, the order of the priest- 
hood and its proselytising influences. The J ew, though differing 
from the Celt in belief, leans towards the priestly order, and 
accepts ceremonials, fasts, and rituals, which to the Saxon would 
be intolerable ; but he never proselytises, and, indeed, rarely 
speaks of the faith he holds nearest to his heart. 
All these peculiarities belong to our English races, together 
with others of a physiological kind, which now I cannot include. 
They belong also through race to name ; and the day I take 
it will come, when the Priest, the Politician, and the Physician 
will respectively learn many a useful lesson from a knowledge of 
this relationship. 
