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 faronade is intended as set off to the inherent insignificance and inevitable dwindling of the Celt and of Celtism. Our criticism—very tentatively and respectfully given-of these doughty champions of Anglo-Saxonism is that they have not taken trouble to see things as they really are, that they have not reckoned the forces and qualities which have gone to the making of Britain, that the indomitable energy and material success of Anglo-Saxonism are only a factor, and that to talk of the Anglo-Saxon race as a pure and distinct entity is neither scientific nor historical. They scarcely seem to appreciate what it is that makes a people, that gives it an enduring place in the world's history. For it is not so much vastness of territory, or teeming masses of population, or statistics of material success. at which the mind staggers, which constitute abiding national greatness, as it is "a spiritual condition worthy to excite the love, interest, and admiration" of mankind. The interest of Israel for us to-day is not that it stretched from Dan to Beersheba, or that it smote the Amalekites and Moabites