Blair Collection > Popular tales of the West Highlands > Volume 4

WEST HIGHLAND STORIES.
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to better lessons first heard
in Gaelic.
I have said this much,
because there is a vague
idea in English-speaking
society that a Celt is an
inferior animal, and that
is a " vulgar error." An
Englishman, say what he
will, has a large cross of
the Celt in his comijosi-
tion, as the shape of his
head proclaiais. Many
Lowlanders and the people
of the midland counties
of England are " Celts,"
and a Erenchman is not
inferior to an Englishman
in most things. The purest
specimens of Scandinavian
blood are to be found ia
Iceland, and there are no
signs of superiority of race
there ; on the contrary,
there is a strong resem-
blance to the people of the
West Highlands, and to
many of their pecidiarities
of temper and manner, I
doubt if even the country
whence the Anglo-Saxons ^™"^ '^ '*°'^® ^* ^'^p'^^^*' ^^-'"i^^^"-
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