The Saxon and the Celt

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Excerpt from The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology In view of such incoherence, which will be found exemplified in nearly every form Of the race-doctrine dealt with in the follow ing pages, it will at least be allowed to be worth arguing whether the doctrine be not fundamentally fallacious, and whether we ought not to look for the cause of differences of national culture and well-being in institutions, political and other, and for the cause of these in preliminary conditions of environment, natural and political - in anything, in short, rather than in primordial and perpetual qualities Of race. The suggestion may seem the more specious, at least, when it is found that all the methods yet employed to make out a case for one race, as the Teutonic, can be and have been employed to make out a contrary case for the other, as in that very pro-celtic treatise T be [view Exegesis of Slzakspere (1859) attributed by M. Littre', in his review of it, to a Mr o'connell, but fitted to serve, in respect of its utter arbi trariness of theory, as a typical example Of a kind of philosophy Often held to be peculiarly Teutonic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.