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ing my observation, that physical power and the energy of a 
strong will are always made evident in the grosser forms of 
whatever implements are invented and nsed by a people, and 
that taste and ingenuity and patient painstaking labour is 
characteristic of a more effeminate and delicate organization ; 
and that this difference of character has been distinctly 
developed in the races who have taken the lead in the world. 
It would occupy too much time and space to enter into the 
details of this subject in this Paper, but I may mention the 
striking difference of features which identify two such races 
of people who have always inhabited Europe, and who have 
been separated as much by their natural peculiarities as by 
the boundary lines of their territory. 
Herodotus gives us the names of two distinct divisions of 
people, but we cannot positively separate them by the light 
of his description. He says, “The Celts are beyond the 
pillars of Hercules, bordering on the territories of the 
Cynesians,” and “inhabit the remotest parts of Europe, 
towards the west,” and that “the Ister (Danube) has its 
source in their territory.” We can only understand by this 
description, that the Celts were the people who dwelt close to 
the northern boundary of France in his day, and this people 
was known afterwards to the Homans as the Germans. They 
are, and always have been, a fair-complexioned, light-haired, 
robust family, and they claim to have possessed that territory 
from the remotest ages. The Cynesians were, in the life- 
time of Herodotus, the inhabitants of France, but what race 
they were we can only conjecture, though the conjecture 
may be based upon very striking facts. France was named 
Gaul by the Homans, because the Gauls possessed it, and this 
is nearly all we know from that source about them ; but we 
must remember the ancient authors did not attend to the 
previous history of other people, particularly if they were 
their rivals. 
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