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“To this I may add, that the old poets regarded the Titans as the 
original and primitive race of mankind. Hence Orpheus says, 
‘From you are all the tribes throughout the world.” —H. in Titanas. 
‘‘Some call the Titans the first race.””—<Arati Phenom. Sch. in loco, 16. 
“The names by which they were known, Zerrigene, sons of the 
earth, imply that generally speaking they were Indigene: Titanes 
may be a synonymous term.! Trr, in Hebrew and in Celtic, signifies 
earth, and in the latter Hanu, Geni, Eni,—to spring forth, to be 
born. 
“These Titans, the sons of the heaven and the earth, or of the 
climate and the country, and the parents of the Celtae, according 
to Hesiod’s account, were driven into the lower parts of the earth 
(Lower Egypt ?), into a land already inhabited by some of 
their brethren. They must, therefore, have been such branches of 
the family as had stayed behind, and had, by force, kept possession 
of a land, intended only as a thoroughfare, but were compelled at 
length ” (probably by the inhabitants of Upper Egypt or Mizraim- 
ites) to follow, as 240,000 other Titans did, the rest. 
“The descendants of the Titanian Japetidae may, I think, be 
recognized in the Waldenses, the Irish, and the Brigantes. Many 
proofs may be given that a Celtic dialect, allied nearly to the Irish, 
once prevailed in Thrace.” 
Dr. Murray states that the “ primary tribes of Europe are, as is 
generally admitted, Ist, the Celtae, ancestors of the Irish; 2nd, the 
Cymri, progenitors of the Welsh, Cornish, and Armoricans. In 
the west of Gaul, and in Britain, there is evidence to presume that 
the greater part of the population consisted of the division of the 
Celtic race whose posterity now possesses the name of Cymri” (a 
name not known in Cesar’s time, but of modern date) ; ‘‘but in Ire- 
land” (and in the Scottish Highlands) “the population was wholly 
Celtic, of that original stem which had penetrated in the earliest 
ages into Gaul, Spain, and the British Isles.” 
' This is doubtful, if we receive the statement given elsewhere, that they in- 
habited the banks of the Nile in Lower Egypt, and were by way of reproach 
ealled Fenmen or Titans, by the inhabitants of Upper Egypt. 
* From a work by Christ”. Anderson. 
