Chiefly through the great labours of Zeuss, the distinguished Bavarian, the Gael is now, as already remarked, universally admitted to belong to the Aryan family. No student of the science of language will now contend that he has any special affinity to the Semitic race. The _Keltae_ of the Greek, the _Galli_ of the Roman, and the _Gàidheil_ of Scotland and Ireland, are the same people. In the east and in the west _Galatia_, or in Gaelic [_Gaidhealtachd_, contracted] and pronounced _Gaeltachd_, is the _Celtica_, or land of the Celts or Gaels. _Gaeltachd_ or _Galatia_ is literally Gael_dom_, or the country of the _Gaels_. The term “Gael” is the same as “Celt,” the only difference being that the original _Gaidel_ comes to us through Latin in the former and through Greek in the latter. So the two may be used indiscriminately, although some writers have endeavoured to preserve a distinction, using “Gaelic” for the language spoken in Scotland and Ireland, and “Celtic” as a more generic term, embracing all the Gaelic Brythonic dialects. “Gael”—the Roman “Gaul”—and the original “Gaidel,” aspirated into “Gaidhel,” which in its aspirated form at last drops the _dh_, and becomes “Gael” or Gaul, is just the same word. The Gael stands in the same relation to the Welsh, the Cornishman, and the Armorican, that the Englishman and German, the Roman and Greek, stand to one another. The Gael, the Manx, and the Irish constitute one branch of the stock, while the Welsh, the Cornish, and the Breton constitute the other.