The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

>» GUL WHO WERE THE ‘‘ CELTS’? PROPERLY SO-CALLED ?

Disclosing identity of Early British,“ Celts’ or Kelts and “‘ Culdees”’ with the “ Khaldis”’ of Van and the Picts.

“The so-called Celiie Question, than which no greater stumbling block in the way of clear thinking exists .. . there is practically to-day a complete unanimity of opinion among physical anthropologists that the term Celt, if used at all, belongs to the brachycephalic [round-headed] darkish population of the Alpine [Swiss] highlands . . . totally lacking in the British Isles.”,—W. Z. Riprey, faces of Europe, 124, 126, 305. RIGHTLY to elicit the real racial agency by which uncivilized Ancient Britain became Aryanized in Language, High Culture and Civilized Institutions m the pre-Roman period, it is still necessary for us to re-examine and strive to solve the vexed question of “‘ The Celts” ; for the existing confusion in the use of this term forms one of the greatest obstacles to clear thinking on the subject, as cited in the heading. And this gross confusion has been a chief cause of the delay hitherto in solving the Origin of the Britons and the Aryan Question in Britain.

At the outset we are confronted by the paradox that, while philologists and popular writers generally in this country assume that the “ Celts’’ were Aryans in race as well as in language, and were the parents of the Brythons or Britons, and the Scots and Irish—notwithstanding that the ‘‘ Early Britons” are also called non-Aryan pre-Celtic aborigineson the other hand, scientific anthropologists and classic historians have proved that the ‘‘Celts’’ of history were the

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