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Excerpt from With the World's People, Vol. 3: An Account of the Ethnic Origin, Primitive Estate, Early Migrations, Social Evolution, and Present Conditions and Promise of the Principal Families of Men
After the discussion of the Latin races I next consider the celts. The history of the race so called occupies the second book of the current volume. The Celtic races were before the Romans in the possession and partial civilization of the greater part of Western Europe. But the preeminence and long continuity of the Romans have suggested their con sideration first after the history of the Greeks, and that of the descendent Latin races next, on the lines of immediate derivation.
The Celts, in the Aryan family of mankind, were cognate with the Romans and the Greeks. Their evolution, how ever, was less striking and less enduring than that of the Roman race, and much less brilliant than that of the Greeks. The difference in favor of the Celts is that they still survive in several existing forms, while the great classical peoples of antiquity have become extinct. The Gael, the Irish, and the Welsh are the living representatives of a stock of man kind formerly diffused throughout the West. The Greeks and the Romans have survived only in ethnic forms greatly de?ected and modified from their respective originals. If it be urged that greencastle, I894.
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