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While Greece began the civilization of the southern shore, northern Gaul received its own from the Celts themselves. A new Celtic tribe, the Cymry or Gumry, (cimmerulf) came to join the Gauls, (s. 0. 631 The new comers, who settled for the most art in the centre of France, on the Seine sndp the Loire, were, it appears, of more serious and stable character. Less indisposed to restraint, they were governed by a sacerdotal corporation the Druids. The primitive religion of the Gauls, which yielded to the Cymric Druidism, was a natural religion, gross undoubtedly, and far from having reached that systematic form which it subsequently acquired among the Irish Gael.i That of the Cymric Druids, as far as it is discernible through the barren notices of the ancients, and the much-altered traditions of the modern \veleh Cymry, had a far loftier mo ral tendene they taught the immortality of the soul. Et was the genius of the race too material to admit of such doctrines bearing early fruit. The Druids could not transport it out of its clannish life. The material principle.
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