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 the north, and the Irishmen everywhere. Add to this the important factor of the more rapid increase of the Celts, and it is not too much to affirm that not one-half the population of the British Isles is really of Teutonic descent. "Nor do the Teutons now," says Mr. Grant Allen, even retain their position as a ruling caste. Mixed Celts in England itself have long since risen to many high places. Leading families of Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, and Irish blood have also been admitted into the peerage of the United Kingdom, and form a large proportion of the House of Commons, of the official world, and of the governing classes in India, the Colonies, and of the empire generally. At the present day, we can only speak of the British people as Anglo-Saxon in a conventional sense. So far as blood goes, we need hardly hesitate to set them down as a pretty equal admixture of Teutonic and Celtic elements."

So much for blood. But how about brains? When the Saxons, Jutes, and Angles conquered and settled in Britain, they were ruthless barbarians and heathens. Southern England