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century before our era: already in the fourtb
century Pytheas of Massilia met Celts on the
ooast of Albion, which he for the first time
calls "Brettanike." If one keeps the social
circumstances of the primitive non-Aryan
poijulation of Bricain, as described, before
one's eye alongside of the verdict of the Celts
in historic times upon them, then one must
conclude that the Celts, at the latest,
IN THE sixth-fifth CENTUEX B.C. POSSES-
SED, IN POINT OF LEGAL EIGHT, NO INSTITU-
TION \VHICH offered any CONNECTINa
LINK WITH THE FUNDAMENTALLY DIF-
FERENT SOCIAL ORDER OF THE PRIMITIVE
NON-ArTAN POPULATION OF BRITAIN AND
OF Ireland.
More, however, for judgment of the above
repeated queries, one can learn if one will
only keep in mind certain pre-suppositions
founded upon fact. Such are the following: —
(1) Among all peoples who by means of their
language can bo accounted of the Aryan stock,
be it Indians or Celts, Iranians or Itahans,
fathcr-righi ("procreation) forms the clear
basis of the existent social order. Also it
cannot be doubted that this must already
have been the case among the jDroto-Aryaus
(v. O. Schrader's Sprachvergleichung und
Urgeschichte 2. Aufl. S. 553-586: B. Del-
briick. Die Indo germaniscnen Yerwandt-
schaftvS namen, ein Beitrag zur vergleichendeu
Alterthumskunde in den Abhandlungen dcr
phil : historischen classe der Konigl. Sachs.
Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1890, Band
XI., 381-606). (2) How far back into anti-
quity have we to place this primitive com-
munity? For this we get a sort of small
scale-of-proportion in the fact that, according
to recent investigations, the Indian Aryans
already in 3500 B.C. were settled as conquerors
in the Punjab, and lived in the faith that a
wife was a friend, that to have a daughter
was a sorrow, a son, however, a joy in the