migration---Difference between the souls of men and Of the existence of Deity---necessity of supposing a first cause---Mind the source of all motion and ac- tion---The phænomena of nature inexplicable with- out the supposition of Deity---Atheism the offspring of vanity and prejudice---Various opinions of the Universal agreement of mankind in the belief of a Deity cultivated state of society, prior to that of written re- The Scythian monarchy the most ancient on historical Historical memoirs concerning the antiquity and ac- curacy of Indian astronomy---derived from Scythia ---The Sanskreet language of the Brahmans, not the primitive language of India, but transmitted from a more ancient people---The knowledge of the wes- tern world derived from the east---Bacchus, a Scy- thian conqueror, the Brahma of India---European superstitions of Asiatic origin---Pure and sublime notions of Deity among the ancient Indians---- Asiatic sources of information concerning the origin of nations much more ancient than those of Greece and Rome---View of the ancient empires of Asia, Babylonia---Persia---China---Errors of the ancients concerning the Caspian sea---extent of the Scythian empire --- Certain European names of places of Scythian derivation---Proofs of the ancient migration Different accounts of the origin of European nations--- Mental energy of the northern nations exemplified--- Great revolutions have commonly originated from the north--- irruption of the Goths---conquests of Timour---The Goths more civilized than is com- great obscurity---poetry antecedent to prose---its ori- LETTER LXXIV. The Celtic languages radically different from the Gothic LETTER LXXV. Review of the character and doctrines of the Druids--- |