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At the beginning of October, 1857, The Lancet published a letter by the Scottish anatomist,
Robert Knox, entitled “New Theory of Race: Celt vs Saxon”. Knox was responding to
the work of the Irish physician and nationalist, John M Elheran, who wished to celebrate
the contributions of those of Celtic descent to modern culture. William Shakespeare
and the Duke of Wellington, M Elheran insisted, were of the “Celtic type” and Americans
were “not a hybrid Anglo-Saxon, but a pure bred Celtic race”. Knox rejected a Celtic
history of America, using his letter to offer up egregiously long quotations from
his book, The Races of Men (1850), at once making his case and gaining some advertising.