we may recognise the same process, though resulting in a
different form of character, that produced in England what
Shakespeare has called a 'happy breed of men,' from the
mingling of Roman, Dane, Belgian, Saxon, Norman, Flem-
ing, Frenchman, with the by no means homogeneous original
Celtic tribes. Only in later times did Attica become irre-
concileably jealous of aliens. Legislators even as modern
as Solon and Cleisthenes consolidated its power by incor-
porating strungers with full franchise; and it seems clear
that each change of dynasty in mythical story expresses
the reception of a new wave of foreign, and possibly cog-
nate, population. To these contingencies, always reserving
the chief value of the truly native, autochthonous genius,
we may fairly ascribe no little of that restless activity and
versatility of mind which distinguished the Athenians even
among the generally so restless and mobile Hellenes.

-183-