Or rather, I think there were Europeans—­Indo-Europeans, Aryans, call them what you will—­where they are now at any time during such a period.  Because race is a thing that will not bear close investigation.  It is a phase; an illusion; a temporary appearance taken on by sections of humanity.  There is nothing in it to fight about or get the least hot over.  It is a camouflage; there you have the very word for it.  What we call Celts and Teutons are simply portions of the one race, humanity, camouflaged up upon their different patterns.  So far as flood and ultimate physical heredity are concerned, I doubt there is sixpenny-worth of difference between any two of the lot.  “Oi mesilf,” said Mr. Dooley, speaking as a good American citizen, “am the thruest and purest Anglo-Saxon that iver came out of Anglo-Saxony.”  We call ourselves Anglo-Saxons because we speak English (a language more than half Latin); when in reality we are probably Jews, Turks, infidels or heretics, if all were known.  What is a Spaniard?  A Latin, you answer pat.  Yes; he speaks a Latin-derived language; and has certain qualities of temperament which seem to mark him as more akin to the French and Italians, than to those whom we, just as wisely, dub ‘Teutonic’ or ‘Slavic.’  But in fact he may have in his veins not a drop of blood that is not Celtic, or not a drop that is not Teutonic, or Moorish, or Roman, or Phoenician, or Iberian, or God knows what.

Suppose you have four laya centers in Europe:  four Foci through which psychic impulses from the Oversoul pour through into this world.  A Mediterranean point, perhaps in Italy; a Teutonic point in Sweden; a Celtic point in Wales-Ireland (formerly a single island, before England rose out of the sea); and a Slavic point, probably in Russia.  The moment comes for such and such a ‘race’ to expand; the Mediterranean, for example.  The Italian laya center, Rome, quickens into life.  Rome conquers Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, the East; becomes Caput Mundi. Countries that shortly before were Celtic in blood, become, through no material change in that blood, Latin; by language, and, as we say, by race.  The moment comes for a Teutonic expansion.  The laya center in Sweden quickens; there is a Swedish or Gothic invasion of Celtic lands south of the Baltic; the continental Teutons presently are freed.  It is the expansion of a spirit, of a psychic something.  People that were before Celts (just as Mr. Dooley is an Anglo-Saxon) become somehow Teutons.  The language expands, and carries a tradition with it.  Head measurements show that neither Southern Germany nor England differs very much towards Teutonicism from the Mediterranean type; yet the one is thoroughly Teutonic, the other Anglo-Saxon.  Sometimes the blood may be changed materially; often, I suppose, it is changed to some extent; but the main change takes place in the language and tradition; sometimes in tradition alone.  There was a minor Celtic quickening