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LECTURE I.
ETHNOLOGICAL RELATION OF CELTIC AND SAXON RACES IN
GREAT BRITAIN ANT) IRELANT).— FORMS OF THOUGHT,
&c., PECULIAR TO THE CELTS.
The population of Europe is well known to
be made up of several distinct races. The
chief of these, in the apparent order of their
seniority, are, — the Finnish, the Celtic, the
Teutonic, the Sclavonic, and the Turkish.
Two of them only can be shown to have pene-
trated into the British Isles, — the Celtic and
the Teutonic, although ethnologists of no
mean name have maintained that there are
distinct traces found in Great Britain of the
existence of a Finnish race. But if such a
population ever did exist, they have long since
passed away, having no memorial save in their
stone cists and burial urns, and leaving the
land wliich was once theirs to be occupied by
races of more vigour and enterprise than them-
selves. At the present time these Islands,
which constitute the United Kingdom, are,
A
ETHNOLOGICAL RELATION OF CELTIC AND SAXON RACES IN
GREAT BRITAIN ANT) IRELANT).— FORMS OF THOUGHT,
&c., PECULIAR TO THE CELTS.
The population of Europe is well known to
be made up of several distinct races. The
chief of these, in the apparent order of their
seniority, are, — the Finnish, the Celtic, the
Teutonic, the Sclavonic, and the Turkish.
Two of them only can be shown to have pene-
trated into the British Isles, — the Celtic and
the Teutonic, although ethnologists of no
mean name have maintained that there are
distinct traces found in Great Britain of the
existence of a Finnish race. But if such a
population ever did exist, they have long since
passed away, having no memorial save in their
stone cists and burial urns, and leaving the
land wliich was once theirs to be occupied by
races of more vigour and enterprise than them-
selves. At the present time these Islands,
which constitute the United Kingdom, are,
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Description | A selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray. |
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Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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