What I have endeavoured to explain in this way are the principles which should govern folklore research in relation to ethnological conditions. The differing races which made up the peoples of Europe before the era of political history must have left their distinctive remains in folklore, if folklore is rightly considered as the traditional survivals of the prehistory period. To get at and classify these remains we must be clear as to the problems which surround inquiry into them. The solution of these problems will place us in possession of a mass of survivals in folklore which are naturally associated with each other, and which stand apart from other survivals also naturally associated with each other. In these two masses we may detect the main influences of the great tribal races and the non-tribal races. We cannot, I think, get much beyond this. We may, perhaps, here and there, detect smaller race divisions--Celtic, Teutonic, Scandinavian or other distinctions, according to the area of investigation--but these will be less apparent, less determinable, and will not be so valuable to historical science as the larger division. To this we shall by proper investigation be indebted for the solution of many doubtful points of the prehistoric period, and it is in this respect that it will appeal to the student of folklore. FOOTNOTES: [466] Mr. Nutt's presidential address to the Folklore Society in 1899 does not, I think, disprove my theory. It ignores it, and confines the problem to legend and folk-tale. Mr. Nutt's powerful, but not conclusive, study is to be found in _Folklore_, x. 71-86, and my reply and correspondence resulting therefrom are to be found at pp. 129-149. [467] MacCulloch, _Childhood of Fiction_, 90-101; Greenwell, _British Barrows_, 17, 18. [468] _Custom and Myth_, 76. [469] _Myth, Ritual and Religion_, ii. 215, compared with Gomme, _Ethnology in Folklore_, 16. [470] I have discussed this point at greater length in _Folklore_, xii. 222-225. [471] Mr. J. O'Beirne Crowe in _Journ. Arch. and Hist. Assoc. of Ireland_, 3rd ser., i. 321. [472] Rhys, _Lectures on Welsh Philology_, 32; _Celtic Heathendom_, 216; _Celtic Britain_, 67-75; Rhys and Brynmôr-Jones, _Welsh People_, 83.