CONCLUSIONS. populations of the west; whose ignorance, poverty, and excess of numbers in proportion to the produce of the soil, are as obvious as their relative deficiency of gross crime and improvident marriages, with only the average of incontinence in other respects, and a deficiency of savings in banks, which, however indicative of their genuine poverty, in no respect impugns the exceeding parsimony which characterizes the daily life of their peasantry; features which all indicate considerable popular misapprehensions as to the Celtic character, and the structure of society which it is calculated to produce (pp. 310, 316, 326, 333, 334). 30. There is likewise a very remarkable general resemblance in moral features between the Celtic regions of the west and the Scandinavian districts of the north, except in the greater amount of energy, instruction, and means possessed by the latter; the second as well as the third being probably a result of the first-a characteristic of race associated with higher habits of co-operation (Id.) 31. The Celtic districts, considered apart, always give the same results as those supplied by the rest of the kingdom, with reference to the predominantly beneficial influences associated with instruction, although they often appear, in the more general comparison with the kingdom at large, to give opposite testimony, owing to the peculiarities, apparently attaching to race, which are now pointed out. Hoping that these results will be found worthy of record, though they have led me far beyond the limits which I had originally prescribed to myself. I have the honor to be, &c., To the Right Honorable the Lords of the JOSEPH FLETCHER. |