We are still dealing with the origin of the _name_. The Franks and Romans diffused and generalized, the Kelts suggested, it. That the name was Keltic is undenied and undeniable. The Welsh and Gaels know us to the present moment as _Saxons_, and not as _Englishmen_. The only doubt has been as to how far it was _exclusively_ Keltic--_i.e._, non-Germanic. Will the supposition of its being Keltic account for _all_ the facts connected with it? No. It will not account for the Finlanders using it. They, like the Kelts, call the Germans _Saxon_. This, then, is a fresh condition to be satisfied. The hypothesis which does this is, that the name _Saxo_ was applied by the Slavonians of the Baltic as well as by Kelts of the coasts of Gaul and Britain to the pirates of the neck of the Chersonese,--the Slavonic designation being adopted by the Finlanders just as the Keltic was by the Romans. And this supplies an argument in favour of the name having been native, since a little consideration will shew that, when two different nations speak of a third by the same name, the _primâ facie_ evidence is in favour of the population to whom it is applied by their neighbours applying it to themselves also. Yet this is no proof of its being German: nor yet of the men of Wes-_sex_, &c., being Nordalbingian. All that we get from the British counties ending in -_sex_ is, that in certain parts of the island, the British name for certain German pirates prevailed over the native, whereas, in others, the native prevailed over the British. If this be but a trifling conclusion in respect to its positive results, it is one of some negative value; inasmuch, as when we have shewn that _Angle_ and _Saxon_ are, to a great extent, the same names in different languages, we have rid ourselves of the imaginary necessity of investigating such imaginary differences as the difference of name, at the first view, suggests. We have also ascertained the historical import of the spread of the names _Saxon_ and _Saxony_. They spread, not because certain Saxons originating in a district no bigger than the county of Rutland, bodily took possession of vast tracts of country in Germany, Britain, and Gaul, but because a great number of Germans were called by the name of a small tribe, just as the Hellenes of Thessaly, Attica, and Peloponnesus were called by the Romans, _Greeks_. The true _Græci_ were a tribe of dimensions nearly as small in respect to the Hellenes at large as the Saxons of Ptolemy were to the Germans in general (perhaps, indeed, they were not Hellenic at all); yet it was the _Græci_ whom the Romans identified with the Hellenes. No one, however, believes that the Græci extended themselves to the extent of the term _Græcia_. On the contrary, every one admits that it was only the import of the name which became enlarged. And this I believe to have been the case with the word _Saxon_.