THE “CELTS."

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 December 1933, Page 5

THE “CELTS."

EVIDENCES OF AN ANCIENT CIVILISATION.

There never was at any time a Celtic nation. The term Celt is simply another identifying name which has been given to a branch of the Aryan family of races which migrated at a very early date from Central Asia to the banks of the Rhine, the Main and the Danube. It has to be noted, by the way, that these so-called Celts have been located under a host of different racial designations. For example, no modern historian disputes that the Brythens in England, the Cymry on the banks of the Moselle, and the people addressed by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians, were- one and the same race. The last wave of invaders to enter Britain anterior to the coming of the Romans were the aforementioned Brythons. This was about 400 BX?. They were tall fellows, well formed, -with long yellow hair, faces shaved clean, except for a moustache, light complexioned agile, hardy.. They were an artistic people, and the weapons and ornaments which they wrought in various metals, as well as their enamel work, are exquisite in design and workmanship. They were skilful potters and weavers, and were masters of the art of dyeing. Many of their spindles, their loom-weights and their weaving combs have susvived. Julius Caesar draws atention to their surperb horsemanship. It is a fact—undisputed by present-day scholars —that these Brythons had reached an advanced stage of civilisation, had made considerable headway in the art of boat building, were great traders, and, before the coming of the Romans, used a coinage.