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IM Celtic, the Slavonian, nml oilier rare*, hut 

 Mai' .T thought. Souther. 



plMhtd great thing* by midden efforts .nic nations 



have . iiicrpri-c tor \at plan*, which 



miir** centime* to cam 't" cHi ct. Thus tlu-\ .!. - 

 tin- Roman empire after a struggle of three centuries, and 

 Uiey funned new kingdoms in Kurope upon new social 

 principles, which have maintained their \igourtolhe pre- 

 sent day. The N'ornmiu became powerftil wherever the 

 sea permitted them lauding. The <J. MM.IH-. 



diminished in innnher after (hoy ha.: -warms to 



western Europe. turned back towmdsthe ea-l p:ut of their 

 country, then uccnpi. . onian nations, which thev 



conquered, and Germanised upon a plan ofcolonizat ion which 

 enabled them to ci\ i -i of Kurope. And lastly. 



the Knglish colonies have spread over the world : their 

 dominion in the east and in the west is the result of plans 

 which imply more boldness of conception, more prudence 

 in execution, and more reflection, than the conqn. 



aider the Great and the ephemeral power of Najwleon. 



The same character of deep mid patient reflection cx- 

 erci-cd on great objects appears in German philosophy 

 and in the inventions of the Teutonic nations. The 

 watch, the irun, and the art of printing are Teutonic in- 

 ventions. They ha\e subjugated the power of steam ; 

 and the first model of the modern sea-vessel was con- 

 structed at the mouth of the Hider by the hands of an old 

 Saxon or Frisian ship-builder. (Clement, . 



The name of the Teutones was made known to the an- 

 tienU by 1'ytheas of Massilia (Marseille , who. in the age 

 of Alexander the Great, about 330 B.C.. discovered a nation 

 of that name in the Chersonesus Cimbiica, and on the ad- 

 jacent islands, or in the present countries of Holstein, 

 j;. Denmark, and perhaps also in the southern ex- 

 tremity of Sweden. It seems that they had long been 

 1 there, for they lived in houses, and were acquainted 

 with agriculture and commerce. Other traces of the name 

 appear later. Among the Celtic tribes which invaded 

 I Delphi under the second Brenmis 

 (B.C. 2/H . there was a people called Teutobodinci. who 

 altcrwards passed the Hellespont and settled with the Celts 

 inGalatia, in Asia Minor. About a hundred amlsixu 

 later, the Romans were attacked by the Cimbri and Teu- 

 Unes, who came from the same country, where tli. 

 been seen by Pytheas. The Teutonic origin of the t 'imln-i 

 has been disputed: some historians consider them iden- 

 tical with the Celtic Cvmii. but this error has been long 

 since refuted, although it has been reproduced in our 

 days by Thierry, in his -Hi-toiie dcs G.inloi-.' Ft is 

 said, and it i not improbable, that inundations of t! 

 compelled the i mid their neighbours the Cimbii 



to leave their inuntry and to seek other abodes. The 

 choice was soon made. The wealth of Homo and the arts 

 of Greece were not unknown to them. From the most re- 

 mote times adventurous merchants, starting from the shores 

 of th' 'Unwed the course of the Dniepr to- 



ward* its sources, and reaching the Diina and the Nicmen. 

 rivers to their mouths in the Haltie. where 

 they exchanged the commodities of the south for amber, 

 the electmm of the antients. The same trade, as it serins. 

 was carried on by the merchants of Massilia along the 

 Klu'ine and the Khine. and therefore Schlo/cr. in his *Nor- 

 disd ays that but for the amber Germany 



would have remained unknown to the antients for five 

 centuries more. Their acquaintance with Koine and Mas- 

 silia was perhaps the principal cause which led the ( 'inihii 

 and the Teuton uth of France and to Itah M.I . 



1 i:j-!i:i . Then 'ii by Marius has been related. 



[M\.. >KI.] 



When tl first heard the name of th. 



they thought that they were a single 1ril>e. They did not 

 know that it was also the general and ethnographic name 

 of all those nations to which they afterwards irave the 

 vague dc-ignation of Germans. 



/ thf Him, ,. The root of the word 



Teuton u ihn or iln. which originally represented the idea 

 of 'activity,' of 'livi nourishing.' ami also 



of 'taming, educating, and ruling.' From thi 

 formed the lolluwiiu ....... f which ., 



in the popular diuh 



'" ' : " : /''.,. /',., ,1,1,1 ,,, tluii'l. ea:th : l"tl. </<.'., 



4ofr, godfather : /..,/. ,,ur*e : ' 



bed, ruler, king, in Gothic Ihm,/,,,,*, in old Ba\an;ui 



; dirt, people, in old Swedish Mm;// 

 >KT**lnGothir 



Th. 'h de- 



rived from .-ses the r ' .ling, 



is a fact which proves that they 

 a nation in which (he- 

 power, nor absolute submission to their chiefs. This > 



exactly to the politi. .'onie 



nat ions, among whom the sovereignty v i-ople.aud 



the executive power of the chiefs or kings, altho 



':. was always regarded asdcmiit Irom the people. 

 ruling, expressed by the root Trul, explains 

 why (hi-, w - so frequently in the nstr 



antienl IT 'chiefs. Mich as Tcnto- 



lioch, Thei: i\. Thcodonc. Theodnmir, 



Theoilimir. Tcnta-on. N.C. Ii is likewise contained in the 



.1 name of all the Teutov, and in those of 



various tnhc-, a- tin- ! the Tcutonoaiii. Thnifali. 



tnd the Dithinarses or Dietmar&es. Ii i> M-ihlr in '! 

 burger \Vald,' the name of that Hinge of uoodeil moun- 

 tains which stit-tihes Irom Detmold westward beyund 

 ().-nahi-iick, in which is situated the (irotenbuig. fonncily 

 Tent" or 'Teiitoburg,' with the farm of Tcutchof.' . 



was oveitluown by Arminius ; in 'Detmold.' I 

 Dnisburg,' 'Deiiz,' and in a great many other 

 localities in ' . HaiunierMciv 'icht- 



fi-/i/ i/fx 1'iiriis; Keichardt, li<-riinniic>i, p. 7M. Jvc. Ti-ntnn 

 is identical with Drutuchf or Trutn-hi' :man 



1'ii'^lt. in Dutch Dmtsrh, in Danish 7^**, in Knglish 

 Dutch', which from the remotest time has been a. 

 still the general name of that part of the Teutonic nations 

 which we now call Germans, who considered the god or hero 

 Tuisco as their common ancestor. Tin -re arc no direct proofs 

 of the word Teuton having had thi -c\'ensi\c meaning in the 

 earliest German history, but this is perhaps the result of 

 the political state of the Teutonic nations, which were ori- 

 ginally divided into numerous tiibes. each of which he- 

 came separately known to the Romans. In the twelfth. 

 ele\ enth, and even as early as the tenth century.* when t In- 

 difference between Fnnik's and s well marked in 



the German empire, these nations, each of which had its 

 own 1. \cr objected to being call. 



the general name of Deutsche orTeuto'i 

 there is no German tribe which has the paiticular name of 

 Teutones. but although the Germans are composed of two 



distinct nations, the High Germans and the 



ins. they call thcmsehe.s Deutsche and their lan- 

 guage Deutscfi, though they do not understand each other. 

 This is very different from the state of things in Ki 

 The true meaning of Krancais ' is political, the name sig- 

 nifying a citizen of the kingdom of France, whether a 

 Frenchman, a German, a Briton, or a liasqnc : in southern 

 France the name of Fiaiu-ai- U giu-n to the people north 

 of the Loire; and. on the coiitran. the name of IV 

 language is never gi\en to uny of the dialect* of the south, 

 nor to the Walloon dialect in Belgium. Similar facts may- 

 be obserxed in Spain. If however such cthnographi. 

 tinctions are the consequence of France ami Spain h.< 

 originally been inhabited by nations of different origin, the 

 circumstance that the name Deutsch' has been s] 

 all Germany and applied to all her dialect sin. in the remotest 

 historical period proves that the name had a general si 

 tientioii long before the commencement of German hi 

 Another circumstance corroborates this opinion. A nation 

 has never changed its name for another except by some 

 great political revolution. Thus the Tata were called 

 Mongols, the Italian-- Romans, the Romans and < 

 Franks, when one man, or one city, or one tribe exei 

 a predominant influence over the remainder of the people : 

 and these nations have preserved the niciiion i 

 Milutions. [TARTARS.] Bat no such revolution i 

 in the bistort of Germany. A further pro, thnt 



the Dutch and the Fl. 'ike to hear their Ian j 



called 'de Hollamlsche taal,' or -de * 

 they prefer gixing it the name of 'de Ncdenlnr 



oft/if Teutonic Nation*. The Teutonic race is 

 I heTciitoncs immigrati d into Kurope 

 .-..t di:'. ."ds unknown to history, although it ap- 



Ihat the la-t of them entered F.urojie during the 

 migration of nations in the fourth and fifth centuries. Some 



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