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lately organised into what we know as the parochial system, that 

 had already so plentifully taken root among the Celtic people 

 long before the Teutonic intruders came. And these were cer- 

 tainly very numerous among them, as may still be seen in Corn- 

 wall and Wales, where the primaeval dedications of churches 

 have been almost undisturbed. Besides this, there is nothing to 

 shew that this wide-spread social groundwork was not imbued, 

 from extremely remote times, with the political sort of civiliza- 

 tion before indicated ; nor that culture itself, although a different 

 thing, has not to a great extent sprung out of it. Literature 

 and the Arts of Ornament or Magnificence, are the instruments 

 of an awakened ambition to be known to posterity, and to be 

 admired by the world ; and have been superimposed or grafted 

 upon it ; but the broad and unfathomed substratum the great 

 storehouse of unexhibited and unhistoried human affections and 

 cares, and joys and griefs still lies under. Wells have been 

 sunk into it, by such as Wordsworth, or Crabbe, or Barnes ; 

 who have brought it into rivalry with the upper culture itself* 

 Other springs, unmixed, have risen through it by their own 

 native energy, as Burns : and one, most abundant, has not only 

 risen through the superincumbent culture, but has overtopped 

 and deluged the entire surface of it, and permeated or infiltrated 

 the whole. To himself, to his friends, and to his neighbours, 

 though not to us, Shakespear would have been Shakespear if 

 he had never handled a pen nor seen paper. So also there are 

 many more saurians latent in unexplored rocks, than what are 

 to be seen upon the walls of museums. 



