THE CELTIC TUMULI OF DORSET. 



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man. This iron age, potent for evil as for good, is of this our day ; 

 the bronze of a past age lies treasured in our cabinets and museums, 

 where its relics appeal to us for the veneration that is due to their 

 antiquity and the lessons they teach ; whilst we ponder over them 

 as the earliest links of that great chain of art which binds our age 

 to the past, reaching down from Keltic barbarism and Roman 

 supremacy to the latest triumphs of science in our foundries and 

 workshops, our ships, our railroads, our implements of peace, and 



our engines of destruction. 



T. W. W. S. 



