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The relation between aboriginal races and colonizing
nations is one of very wide, and in some respects of painful interest. In every land no occupied by
a civilized and progressive people, there are some
records of the previous existence of a race which
has lost its distinct character, either by destruction
or absorption into the ruling race. Modern
historians tell us that there are traces in Britain
of a people who inhabited that island before the
Celts; that the Britons who were dispossessed by
the Saxons and Danes had themselves, before
the landing of Julius Caesar, exterminated an
earlier race. As Cimmerian, Celtic, Teutonic,
and [Schlavonic?] waves of population have moved
westward successively, from the original homes
of Mankind about the Caspian Sea, towards
the coasts of the Atlantic, there has been in
many instances a gradual amalgamation
of the invading and the conquered people.
The Briton and the Frenchman of the present day