Of this general character we regard the rude, heavy, unhopeful English peasant, who knows no indulgence or relaxation but that of the ale-house, and lives equally without content and without ambition, as affording the fundamental type, which, like all other things English, possesses a marked individuality.

It differs decidedly from the Irish type of peasant degradation.

Something of this may be due to the effect of race.

The Kelt and the Saxon may be expected to differ.

Yet we think but little stress is to be laid upon this.