Excerpt from Irish Ethnology, Socialy and Politically Considered: Embracing a General Outline of the Celtic and Saxon Races, With Practical InferencesAnother cause of aversion to the impartial investi gation of questions of race may be noticed here - the dread of offending prejudices and of increasing antipa thies, which already, unhappily, are found to exist in too great abundance. The writer is persuaded that a vast amount of evil has arisen from the concealment of truth consequent on this sentiment - that such prejudices and antipathies have been maintained by ignorance of the true nature and bearings of those most interesting and important relations which form the subject of the pre sent work - that the result of honest inquiry would be precisely the reverse of that anticipated - that a sincere endeavour to arrive at truth in this matter would but lead to a clear knowledge of the true interests of both races - and that, instead of increasing rancorous feeling and widening existing breaches, such knowledge would be found the most efficacious means of terminating mutual animosities, and insuring the mutual advan'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.