In that instance she has muddled, as usual, but she has not muddled through.
"The Anglo-Saxons, those great colonisers of far-off lands, have in their own United Kingdom succeeded only in inflicting a long martyrdom on Ireland.

The insular situation of England had for pendant the insular situation of Ireland; the two islands lie there face to face.

The English and the Irish, although intellectually very much alike, have preserved different characters.

And this difference cannot be due essentially to the racial element, for nearly half Ireland is Germanic.

It is due to traditions and customs developed by English oppression." Having summarised the main lines of British policy in Ireland, he concludes: "It is not easy to detect here any sign of the 'superiority of the Anglo-Saxons.'" With Fouillee we may associate Emile Boutmy.