Thomas de Courcy Atkins Kelt or Gael

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Pliny expressly states that the Greeks called all Spain Iberia after the river.1 It is from the incorrect use of this expression kelt-iberian that another error arose, namely, that Spain alone produced a small, dark, pre-historic race of men, Sometimes called Kelts and sometimes Iberians, but equally incorrectly. That there was such a small race in Spain is vouched for by men who learn their facts and measure their language; but now the little men have been traced through every country in Europe, from Southern Spain to the Caucasus, and also in Britain. They were pre-keltic, pre~german, and pre-slav: they were a link in the Chain of evolution; but there is no greater ground for calling them Iberian than for calling them Caucasian.