Northern culture-founders birthed Europe. They burst into the Southern peninsulas, thence forming the Homeric civilisation led by Celt-Teutonic Acheans and later by Doric Hellenes. In the great works of Greece, its gods and heroes bore countenances quite fair above the darker population.

Latins and Sabines out of Central Europe formed the Roman Republic. Bringing the Italian Renaissance was Lombard-blooded genius. For Iberia, a Visigoth and Vandal; for Slavdom and Russia, the Norse; France had its Franks and Normans; Britain and America, they have the Englishmen.