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The Kelt or Gael. 21
Danube is German or Slav. I will hereafter
deal with Southern Italy and Greece when I Southern
1 T • 1 r- 1 Italy and
come to compare the Latm and Greek tongues Greece,
with the less known Western Keltic. In all
this I have done or said nothing new. The
statements taken singly have never been con-
tested. I have simply placed side by side
matters that have hitherto been treated separ-
ately.
Hereafter I hope to show that Latin, and, to
a less extent, Greek, are only Keltic dialects :
that the Latin-speaking countries of Italy, Spain,
France, and Britain accepted the Latin tongue
readily, because it was in each case only a
higher and more copious form of their own
language, and gave them the command of a
his/her literature.
In the countries of Bohemia and Moravia,
Rhaetia, Vindelicia, Norricum, Pannonia, and
Moesia, the German and the Slav have come
in upon the Kelt, and he has lost his language,
but he has not lost his blood, his vitality, or his
imagination, the greatest gift of the Deity to
man.
East of the Rhine and north of the Danube German and
was the German and Slav ground, but how it ^^s""""" *
was then divided is still uncertain ; probably
very much as it is to-day.