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shores, viz. those tribes we now include under the generic name of 

 Teutons : they are known to us in history as Angles, Frisians, 

 Jutes, Goths, Danes, and Norsemen. Who were they? Whence 

 came they] History is dumb, or at least such utterances as she 

 has given forth are mere speculations and guess-work. Modern 

 Philology has done much to solve the enigma. A comparison of 

 the Teutonic languages with the Celtic, proves beyond doubt that 

 the Teutonic races were originally of the same stock as the Celtic; 

 that they, like the Celtic, had at one time led a pastoral life ; lived 

 in communities ; worshipped a Supreme Being, whom they looked 

 upon as the author of all good, and had known the family ties which 

 bind men together in domestic affections. The same test, i.e. the 

 test of language, shows at the same time that the two races, the 

 Celts and the Teutons, had been separated by a wide gulf of time, 

 sufficiently wide to allow the two languages to become considerably 

 different from each other. The southern Celts, the Greeks, and 

 Romans, worshipped the Supreme Being under the name of Dios, 

 Zeus, Jupiter (all the same word) i. e. the God of Day. The 

 Persians are sun-worshippers still, and the Druids of Britain taught 

 the worship of the heavenly bodies. The Teutons deified the sun 

 and the moon, as seen in the names Sunday, Monday ; but they 

 only knew the Supreme Being as God, i. e. Good. There is a 

 Sanskrit root kiina, signifying Snow ; it is found in the name of 

 the loftiest range of mountains in the world — -Himalaya, i. e. the 

 abode of Snow. The southern Celts must have carried this root- 

 word with them, for we find it embodied in the written language 

 of both Greeks and Romans ; in the former cheitna, in the 

 latter /items, both signifying the same thing, viz. — Winter, i. e. the 

 Siioivy Season. To signify the same season of the year, the 

 Teutons had a totally different word. Long exposure to the cold 

 howling blasts that sweep over the plains and forests of northern 

 Europe, led them to characterise the return of that dreary time of 

 the year by the term Winter, i. e. the Windy Season. 



To the earher comers, the Celts, the names of all the great 

 natural landmarks of the country over which they spread, as one 

 might naturally expect, are due. Among the rivers the Rhine, 



