THE CANADIAN JOUENAL. 



NEW SERIES. 



No. XCI.— JULY, 1876. 



THE EASTERN ORIGIN OF THE CELTS. 



BY JOHN CAMPBELL, M.A., 



Professor of Church History, Presbyterian College, Montreal, 



I do not purpose giving a review of Pritchard's well-known book 

 upon this subject, or of any theory yet proposed, but the results of 

 independent investigation from an entirely new standpoint. In 

 various papei's laid before the Institute, as well as in others which 

 have appeared elsewhere, I have undertaken to prove the great 

 importance, in an ethnological point uf view, of the genealogies of 

 the first book of Chronicles.^ It is among these that I find the 

 eponyms of various Celtic peoples ; and the concurrence of their 

 names in various countries, from India in the east to Britain in the 

 west, has enabled me to ojien up one of the most interesting fields 

 of ethnological research. The Sumerians and Accadians are at 

 present occupying the attention which Pelasgians and Etrurians once 

 held, and it is, therefore, with no little satisfaction that I find the 

 Celtic origines shedding light upon the history of these ancient 

 peoples. It will be remembered that the Celts have ever claimed a 

 Scythian ancestry, and, therefore, it need not be surprising to find 

 them related to the old Scythic or Turanian stock of Babylonia. 



1 The Horites, Canadian Journal, May, 1873. 

 The Shepherd Kinss of Egypt, Canadian Journal, April and August, 1874. 

 The Primitive History of the lonians, Canadian Journal, May, 1875. 

 The Origin of the Phoenicians, British and Foreign Evangelical Eeview, July, 1875. 

 The Hornets of Scripture, Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review, Oct )her, 1875. 

 The Traditions of the People of Mexico and Peru identified with the Mythology of the Old 

 World, Comptes Kendus du Congres International des Americanistes, Nancy, 1875. 



