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 that the Britons were put to the sword, and it is in those counties mainly that you will find the Teuton in his glory to-day. Anthropology fully bears out these contentions. The predominant physique and skull of Englishmen approaches the Celtic much more than the actual Germanic of to-day. In Sussex alone do we read of a complete annihilation of Britons, and it is precisely in Sussex that the Teutonic type of physique still remains the purest.

Furthermore, during the industrial revolution of the last hundred years, the discovery of coal and the dependence of trade and industry upon coal have caused the Celtic portions of England—the west and north—to grow at an enormous rate. The English language and English laws and institutions have extended their sway over Great Britain and Ireland. English land laws are depopulating Celtic Ireland, Wales and the Highlands, but those dispossessed Celts are sweeping to the English portions of Britain, the Highlanders to Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, the Welsh­ men to London, Liverpool, Manchester and