of the professors there, in which the writer observed, as a
remarkable thing, that while other countries conquered by the
Germans,--France, for instance, and Italy,--had ousted all German
influence from their genius and literature, there were two countries,
not originally Germanic, but conquered by the Germans, England and
German Switzerland, of which the genius and the literature were
purely and unmixedly German; and this he laid down as a position
which nobody would dream of challenging.

I say it is strange that this should be so, and we in particular have
reason for inquiring whether it really is so; because though, as I
have said, even as a matter of science the Celt has a claim to be
known, and we have an interest in knowing him, yet this interest is
wonderfully enhanced if we find him to have actually a part in us.
The question is to be tried by external and by internal evidence; the
language and the physical type of our race afford certain data for
trying it, and other data are afforded by our literature, genius, and
spiritual production generally. Data of this second kind belong to
the province of the literary critic; data of the first kind to the
province of the philologist and of the physiologist.

The province of the philologist and of the physiologist is not mine;
but this whole question as to the mixture of Celt with Saxon in us
has been so little explored, people have been so prone to settle it
off-hand according to their prepossessions, that even on the
philological and physiological side of it I must say a few words in
passing. Surely it must strike with surprise any one who thinks of
it, to find that without any immense inpouring of a whole people,
that by mere expeditions of invaders having to come over the sea, and
in no greater numbers than the Saxons, so far as we can make out,