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different personage from the Lord of the Manor。 And there are no
signs as yet even of the beginnings of great towns and cities。
Still the assertion； which is the text of Dr Sullivan's treatise；
may be hazarded without rashness； that everything in the Germanic
has at least its embryo in the Celtic land system。 The study of
the Brehon law leads to the same conclusion pointed at by so many
branches of modern research。 It conveys a stronger impression
than ever of a wide separation between the Aryan race and races
of other stocks； but it suggests that many； perhaps most； of the
differences in kind alleged to exist between Aryan sub…races are
really differences merely in degree of development。 It is to be
hoped that contemporary thought will before long make an effort
to emancipate itself from those habits of levity in adopting
theories of race which it seems to have contracted。 Many of these
theories appear to have little merit except the facility which
they give for building on them inferences tremendously out of
proportion to the mental labour which they cost the builder。