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they appear to have had a purer, deeper feeling for the nature 
around them, more communion with it, more sympathy with 
it, alike in its softer and in its sterner aspects, than their 
successors had, or than for long appeared in Saxon or Eng¬ 
lish literature.” He adds that this feeling for nature “was 
shared in, if not by the Saxon, at least by the romantic and 
impassioned Scandinavian.” 
This examination of the Evidence bearing upon British 
Ethnology has made it evident that neither stature nor com¬ 
plexion in themselves tell us whether a man is probably either 
pre-Celtic, Celtic, or Teutonic; also that the Scandinavian 
and the Anglo-Saxon branches of the Teutonic family have 
by no means contributed similar qualities to the making of 
England. 32 The relative proportions of the Celtic and Teu¬ 
tonic elements cannot, of course, be ascertained with any 
approximation to accuracy. Dr. Beddoe speaks of Mr. Grant 
Allen’s excellent little book on Anglo-Saxon Britain as giving 
the fairest account that he lias seen ; and Mr. Grant Allen 
thinks it highly probable that not half the population of the 
British Isles is really of Teutonic descent. Mr. Grant Allen, 
however, appears to have written before the publication of 
Mr. Seebolim’s book, and consequently does not recognise so 
much continuity between Boman and Saxon Britain as he 
otherwise would probably have done. And this, of course, 
implies that his estimate of the pre-Celtic and Celtic elements 
is lower than it -would otherwise have been. On the wdiole, 
if we estimate the pre-Celtic, Celtic, and Scandinavian 
elements combined as amounting to two-tliirds, and the 
united Angle, Saxon, and Jute element as one-tliird, the in¬ 
fluence of the latter is more likely 7 to have been over-estimated 
than the reverse. 
But this address is growing unduly long. I will therefore 
only add, in conclusion, that if to Celtic or Celtiberian sources 
we ow T e much of the beauty of our literature, and to Celt and 
Scandinavian much of our energy, and of the fiery valour o 
32 For a comparison of the literature of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandi¬ 
navian see Mr. Metcalfe’s book ‘ The Englishman and the Scandinavian, 
London, 1880. 
