The Story of the Britons (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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HY should the legendary story of the ancient Britons be less familiar to American readers than that of the early Romans? Is it less connected with our literature? Is it less interest ing in itself? Are we quite sure that it has less of truth for its foundation?

When the Romans entered Britain, about a half century before the Christian era, they found there a people possessing fortified towns, and employing superior arms and war chariots. They found a people who had traded for many centuries with the most progressive people of the Far East - the Phoenicians - and who had long possessed an alphabet. They found a priesthood singularly learned, whose course of instruction covered a period of twenty years, and whose system of culture carried to human perfection the art of memorizing, since they preferred that their learn ing should be preserved in unwritten verse.

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