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wy Wile eV. J. Li. LOSS. 16u 
“Determined,” says Huddleston,’ “to probe the matter to the 
bottom, I devoted my serious attention to the history, antiquities, 
and language of the Ce/ts. The result was that I found it established 
by the most unquestionable authorities, that the Celtic language was 
a dialect of the primary language of Asia; that the Celts were the 
aboriginal inhabitants of Europe, and that they had among them, from 
the most remote antiquity, an order of Lireratt NAMED Drvips, to 
whom the Greeks and Romans ascribe a degree of philosophical celebrity 
inferior to none of the sages of antiquity.” From the Celtic language 
which has a remarkable affinity with the Sanscrit, and is therefore 
the aboriginal language of Europe which they colonized, are de- 
rived all our modern languages, viz.: the Gothic or German; 
Phenician or Moorish in Spain; the Italian from the Gothicized 
Roman (the Roman and Greek being both derived from the San- 
scrit); the French from the Celtic, Roman, and Gothic; and the 
old British (a dialect of the Celtic), whence has been formed the 
present English after various transformations from the Saxon and 
other languages. The Celts (and of course their Literati the Druids) 
are descended from Gomer, the eldest son of Japhet, the eldest son 
of the Patriarch Noah, who was the progenitor of the Gomarians 
in Asia, the Sacz, the Titans, the Cimri or Cimmerians: and also 
of the Celtae who were better known by the name of Gauls.” 
In proof of the correctness of this view, we shall conclude this 
chapter with a comparison of the Celtic and Greek in the Lord’s 
prayer. ‘The Lord’s prayer in Greek, (says Maclean) if put into 
the Roman character is pretty intelligible to a Celt of the nine- 
teenth century! There we have ‘ouranois,’ for the Celtic awran, 
heavens; ‘to onoma sou’ for do ainmsa, thy name; ‘to thelema sou’ 
for do thoilsa, thy will; ‘ton artén’ for an t-aran, the bread; ‘ofei- 
lemata’ for oilpheum, offence, crime, where we may perceive the 
palpable transposition; ‘peirasmon’ for beer-as, or buaireas, tempta- 
tion; and ‘poneron’ a Cabalistic term equivalent to our Jpheron, 
hell, &c. Transposition has multiplied terms, not confounded them. 
What in Joshua xix. 8, is Baaleth or Bolet, is in 1 Kings xvi. 31, 
"In his preface to Toland’s History of the Druids, p. 670. 
? Pezron in his ‘Antiquities of Nations,’ quoted by Maclean. 
