Excerpt from Ireland: Past, Present and Future; With a Glance at the History, and Contrast of Character Between the Teutonic, or Saxon, and the Celtic Races The consequence was that nearly all Italy and Gaul, and the extreme southern portion of Germany, were under the influence of the principles of the Gospel as promulgated by the Catholic Church. When these Teutonic tribes came in contact With the people who were the inhabitants of these countries; they were influenced by them to some extent. They'fi'nally reached the capital of the Christian world and took possession; they, however, were finally converted to the faith, and settled per manently in the Roman Empire, some contiguous to the city and others more remote. But, in consequence of amalgama tion with the Celtic race, in those countries, the blood of the Teutonic race ceased to prevail, and as the people with whom they came in contact, were by nature more artistic than them selves, the result was, and is now, that the people of Southern Germany where the Catholic population of the Germans reside and were born, has more poets, as Schiller, Herder, Jean Paul, vveiland, Goethe, and numerous others; and the same will apply to her. Great musicians, such as Haydn, Mozart, Men delsohn and, numerous others. Then again look at her best painters and sculptors, as well as architects; and their great buildings. They abound more in Southern Germany than in Northern. But in the northern part where the race is less mixed and more Teutonic, there. Will be found the birth place, to a greater extent, of her philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Victor, Schlegel and others, proving that the. Celtic race and those who possessed a predominance of their blood, are more artistic than the Teutonic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.