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head-form in the British Isles. It thus appears that the titles ‘‘Hibernia’”’ for Ireland, and ‘‘ Hebrides’’ for the Western Isles, are probably survivals of the ‘‘ /beria’’ title for the primitive stock, which first peopled the British Isles in the Stone Age. Indeed, the Irish Gaels or Gaedhels or “ Fene ’ claim origin from “‘ the sons of Milead or Miledh,”? which is said to be Milesia in Spain,?7.¢e., Iberia; and, in describing the later colonization of Erin, they say that a leading chief of the later Gaedhel Miledh immigrants was called ‘‘ Ebey” which appears to preserve this “ Iberia”’ title : “ They spread themselves through Erin, to her coasts .. . Eber (the Gaedhel) took the South of Erenn (Erin),’’*

In consequence of these discoveries by anthropologists that the ‘‘ Celts’ belonged to the non-Aryan round-headed race, and the resulting paradox that the so-called“ British and Irish Celts’ were not Celts, and that there were no “ Celts ”’ in Britain,‘ the leading anthropologists, recognizing the logic of facts, gave up the use of the misleading terms “ Celt ”’ and “ Celtic ’’ in a racial sense in regard to the British Isles, and restricted these terms to the round-headed Celts of Gaul, according to the designation of these people in the classics. And even the term ‘“‘ Aryan’ tended to drop out of use in a racial sense, when no historical trace of the Early Aryans in Europe could be discovered, and when it was found by M. de Quatrefages* and others that the physical type not only of the Prussians but also the prevailing type of the Germans—who had posed as being the leading ‘‘ Aryan ”’ civilizers of Europe—was Slavic and thus Non-Aryan. They now recognized more clearly than before the fact that mere language is by itself no criterion of Race, and that kinship in language does not necessarily imply kinship in race, as so many conquered races are observed to have adopted, or to have imposed on them the language of their overlords of a totally different race. As Huxley observed, no one could call a Negro of America either English or Aryan

Book of Lecain, detailed references in Skene, op. cit., 47. *1b. 319. *1b. 50, 51. ‘But, see below. 5 La vace frussienne, 187%