The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

138 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

in race, merely because he spoke the Aryan English speech. And, as has been wellsaid: ‘‘ There is no such thing as ‘a French race,’ but rather many races speaking French ; no Italian race, but rather many races speaking Italian; no Germanic race, but rather many races speaking German ;”’ ? and we may add fhere is no such thing as “The English vace,’’ but rather many races and mixed races living in the same political unity under the same laws and speaking the English Language.

The philologists, on the other hand, for whom the Celtic Theory seems to have possessed a fatal fascination, still clung, and do cling, to the title “‘ Celtic’ for the language spoken in the British Isles by the Gaels of Scotland and Ireland and by the Cymri of Wales. And the “ die-hard ” Celtists still give it a racial sense, and speak of the British “ Celtic’’ speakers as “ The Black Celts,”? and of the “‘ Celtic temperament,’ and of the kilt as ‘“‘the garb of Old Gaul,” and of the ‘“ Celtic origin” of the Aryan Language in Britain. They thus keep alive the old mental confusion and mislead the public and popular writers. Thus we have the latest writer on history, Mr. Wells, misled into writing the jargon that: the Ael/tic invasion of Britain was by “ tall and fair’’ people, and “ Nordic Kelts,’’ and that “it is even doubtful if the north of England is more Aryan than pre-Keltic in blood.”’* (!) With such conflicting uses of the term “ Celtic”’ in circulation, even some anthropologists occasionally lapse into references to “ the Celts of the British Isles,’ and to Celts as “‘ a branch of the Aryan Race.”

Who then are the race in Britain called “ Celts” by our latter day writers ?

No traditional or historical reference or record whatever exists of the migration of any people called ‘‘ Celts’ into Early Britain.*

1A. Hovelacque, Science of Language, 1877, 243.

? Compare Encyclop. Britannica, 11th ed., 1910, 5, O11.

> H. G. Wells, Outlines of History, 1920, 83.

‘Cesar mentions that some Belgians had migrated to the south coast of Britain during and shortly before his day. These have been arbitrarily called ‘ Celts’? by some latter-day writers; but Cmsar expressly excludes the Belge from the Celte (D.B.G.i,1.).