In view of such incoherence, which will be found exemplified in nearly every form Of the race-doctrine dealt with in the follow ing pages, it will at least be allowed to be worth arguing whether the doctrine be not fundamentally fallacious, and whether we ought not to look for the cause of differences of national culture and well-being in institutions, political and other, and for the cause of these in preliminary conditions of environment, natural and political — in anything, in short, rather than in primordial and perpetual qualities Of race. The suggestion may seem the more specious, at least, when it is found that all the methods yet employed to make out a case for one race, as the Teutonic, can be and have been employed to make out a contrary case for the other, as in that very pro-celtic treatise T be [view Exegesis of Slzakspere (1859) attributed by M. Littre', in his review of it, to a Mr o'connell, but fitted to serve, in respect of its utter arbi trariness of theory, as a typical example Of a kind of philosophy Often held to be peculiarly Teutonic.
