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failing, as is too perceptible in his misrepresentations of the Jews, and 

 his revilings of the "exitiabilis superstitio "* of the Christians. But 

 the Greeks and Romans called all nations beyond their pale barba- 

 rous, the former ungratefully gave that appellation even to the Egyp- 

 tians, from whom they borrowed their own learning; and the Italians, 

 to this day, preserve the reproachful cognomen of " ultramontane " 

 for the uncivilized people that inhabit northward of the Alps. 



Diogenes Laertius, who flourished in the second century, evinces 

 the ignorant prejudice of these remarks, when he confesses that philo- 

 sophy was derived from the Barbarians, and the most sublime parts of 

 the theology of the Greeks from the Druids of the Celts ;'j' while 

 Clemens Alexandrinus, an author also of the second century, in seve- 

 ral passages strengthens the above conclusion. " Philosophia olim 

 floruit apud Barbaros, per gentes resplendens. Postea autem etiani 

 venit ad Graecos. Ei antem profuerunt ***** Gallorum 

 Druidae,":]: — " earn spem quae est post mortem non solum perse- 

 quuntur, qui barbaram philosophiam agnoscunt;"§ — " Celtarum ii 

 qui philosophati sunt, &c. &c."J 



* Annals, lib. 15. 



KiAtoij ««i r<«A»T«(; TOV! x«X<ii;/«sv«us AjuiS*! x-ctt 'Ssfisohevg, xitTtcifiyi<rit A{«!-WTiPii)5 i> ru 



yictyixu." — Diogenes Laertius, lib. 1. Prooemium. 



X Strom, lib. 1. cited by Mr. Mac-Pherson. 



§ Strom, lib. 4. cited by Mr. Mac-Pherson. We beg to say, once for all, that when we 

 have been unable ourselves to discover passages, and only then, we take leave to cite the autho- 

 rities that refer to them. 



