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APPENDIX B. 



HISTORIC DOUBTS. 



Exception has been taken so ably to the quotations from 

 Dr. Henet and Mr. Davies which open the last section of this 

 paper, that the subject must not be left altogether unnoticed. It 

 is asked, what proof have we that the Britons were descended 

 from Gomer ? There is an interval of some 2000 years between 

 the age in which Gomer lived and the earliest period at which 

 we find mention of the Britons. It is a mere unsupported hy- 

 pothesis. We do not even know that Gomer was, as he is here 

 asserted to be, the eldest son of Japheth. 



Still greater objections are lU'ged against the supposed 

 " connection between the Druidical and Patriarchal religions." 

 The little we do know of what the Patriarchal religion really was 

 shows a most material difference between them. The Patriarchal 

 religion was certainly a worship of the one true God : the Druidi- 

 cal religion was, as certainly, an idolatrous system, consisting, as 

 all accounts agree, in the worship of the heavenly bodies, and of 

 gods whom the Eomans caU Hesus and Teutates. 



Some objectors have even gone further than this, and 

 doubted the existence of Druids at all. This seems a most un- 

 reasonable piece of scepticism, in the face of the evidence of such 

 contemporary writers as Steabo, Tacitus, Suetonius, Plint, 

 and above aU, C^sae, the earliest, and by far the best of all our 

 authorities on the subject. 



With very much higher interest and originality, the Rev. 

 Mr. WooDHOusE points out the very striking resemblance that 

 exists on some points between Druidism and Brahminism. We 

 know that the maintenance and honour of a sacerdotal caste 



