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ANACCOXTlSfT OP THfe FltlS ^ INTiLODtTctidTSr OF tHE GOSPEL INTO BRITAIN * BY THE HEV . W . RlfcHARDS *^
np ^ HE state of civilization and knowledge among the Britons X prior to the Roman invasion , or the first introduction of Christianity ^ is a point upon Which antiquaries and historians have entertained very different opinions * While some have
represented them as & nation of babarians and savages , scarcely superior to the Esquimaux * the Caffres , or the New Hollanders ; others again have maintained , that they were really
an enlightened people , who had arrived at an advanced state of civilization and improvement * under the direction of A numerous and respectable order of instructors ^ whose maxims and precepts would have suffered no degradation by a com * parison with those of the celebrated sages of Greece or Rome . This latter opinion seems not ill founded * The instructors here alluded to were the Druids , or more
properly speaking , the Beirdd , or Bards ; for the Druids were in fact only a particular class of that order . The very language of the Britons appears to have been formed ^ improved ^ and brought to its utmost state of perfection by these men * It does not appear to have been jmaterially amended or improved since their time . € C It carries in itself / ' ( says a re-6
spectable modern writer ) * the evidence of being free from intermixture , being so constructed ^ as not to assimilate with foreign words , except such as are mere simple sounds ; atSt there could hardly be a case where any of this description could be wanted ; and should words have been adopted , they are very easily discriminated . There are , many traits iti it , beside its regularity ., that are worthy of investigation , and
* A few copies of the Account" ha * 6 been printed but not published . The Author has now corrected and prepared it for the Monthly Repository . It will be followed by a Sketch of the History of Pciagius , and a View of the state of ChH *« tianity among the Britons , from th * time of Pclagiut to that ** Widriitfft .
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/1/
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