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Article A^CLO¦> SAXOH HISTORY ILLUSTRATED BY TOP... ← Page 2 of 5 →
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Eleventh . The eonBequo ^ t assumption , that a mixed race produces the best population , On the other hand , there are many facts which should make us halt before we very readily take up any such belief . First , The positive evidence of the chronicles as to the circumstances tinder which the invasion took place .
Second . The fe already to a great degree extinguish ^ Third . The extinction of the Walloons . Fourth . The limited number of the descendants of the French refugees . Fifth . The non-admixture of the Jews .
Sixth . The isolation of the Irish rookeries in our great towns . Seventh . That the Welsh and other populations in these islands who have undergone the like assumed intermixture , are a people veTy difierent from ourselves , and so to be ^^^ d ^
labourer as much as by the ethnologist . Eighth , That the ^ French , who haye also , it is assumed , shared lately ^ blood , are a people very unlike ourselves .
TO nations , which have not shared in Celtic and Bonian blood , but ^ re of Gfermanie ofispring , have a likeness to ourselves .. Tenth . That the evidence of nature shows it is a law of Providence that original types are permanent , and that mixed races of animals , or even of plants , are not permanent .
Eleventh . That , although choice breeds of horses , oxen , sheep , dogs , poultry , and choice varieties of fruit and flowers , are produced by intermixture--rand though such breeds and varieties are propagable for a time- ~ there is a constant tendency to resume one of the original types , and that such breeds and varieties run out or become extinct .
Twelfth . That there is not among the English a greater diversity of appearance among themselves , proving a mixture of race , than there is among the Jews or any other race recognized to have preserved itself from intermixture ,
Thirteenth . That the body of topographical and philological evidence , and indeed all facts , are in favour of the non-intermixture of the Celtic with the English race , except in the border countries and on the conditions applicable to mixed races opposed to the permanent existence of mixed races .
In order to carry out the theory of mixed races , it is considered necessary to antedate the settlement of the Germanic race in this island , instead of taking it as 449 , the date ofthe Chronicle , or thereabouts . ' This is done on two grounds , first-r-that large bodies of Germanic auxiliaries were brought over by the Romans , and next—that the eastward shores of Britain were called the Saxon shore , and the Roman officer engaged in their defence , the Count of the Saxon shore . * * Conies littoris Saxonioi per Britanniam . vol . v . 2 a
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A^Clo¦> Saxoh History Illustrated By Top...
Eleventh . The eonBequo ^ t assumption , that a mixed race produces the best population , On the other hand , there are many facts which should make us halt before we very readily take up any such belief . First , The positive evidence of the chronicles as to the circumstances tinder which the invasion took place .
Second . The fe already to a great degree extinguish ^ Third . The extinction of the Walloons . Fourth . The limited number of the descendants of the French refugees . Fifth . The non-admixture of the Jews .
Sixth . The isolation of the Irish rookeries in our great towns . Seventh . That the Welsh and other populations in these islands who have undergone the like assumed intermixture , are a people veTy difierent from ourselves , and so to be ^^^ d ^
labourer as much as by the ethnologist . Eighth , That the ^ French , who haye also , it is assumed , shared lately ^ blood , are a people very unlike ourselves .
TO nations , which have not shared in Celtic and Bonian blood , but ^ re of Gfermanie ofispring , have a likeness to ourselves .. Tenth . That the evidence of nature shows it is a law of Providence that original types are permanent , and that mixed races of animals , or even of plants , are not permanent .
Eleventh . That , although choice breeds of horses , oxen , sheep , dogs , poultry , and choice varieties of fruit and flowers , are produced by intermixture--rand though such breeds and varieties are propagable for a time- ~ there is a constant tendency to resume one of the original types , and that such breeds and varieties run out or become extinct .
Twelfth . That there is not among the English a greater diversity of appearance among themselves , proving a mixture of race , than there is among the Jews or any other race recognized to have preserved itself from intermixture ,
Thirteenth . That the body of topographical and philological evidence , and indeed all facts , are in favour of the non-intermixture of the Celtic with the English race , except in the border countries and on the conditions applicable to mixed races opposed to the permanent existence of mixed races .
In order to carry out the theory of mixed races , it is considered necessary to antedate the settlement of the Germanic race in this island , instead of taking it as 449 , the date ofthe Chronicle , or thereabouts . ' This is done on two grounds , first-r-that large bodies of Germanic auxiliaries were brought over by the Romans , and next—that the eastward shores of Britain were called the Saxon shore , and the Roman officer engaged in their defence , the Count of the Saxon shore . * * Conies littoris Saxonioi per Britanniam . vol . v . 2 a