THE   CANADIAN   JOUKNAL.

                     NEW  SERIES.

            No. XCL—JULY,   1876.
 

THE EASTERN  ORIGIN  OF THE CELTS.
 

         BY JOHN CAMPBELL, M.A.,

Professor of Church History, Presbyterian College, Montreal,
 

  I do not purpose giving a review of Pritchard's -well-known book

upon this subject, or of any theory yet proposed, but the results of

independent investigation  from an  entirely new standpoint.   In

various papers laid before the Institute, as well as  in  others which

have  appeared  elsewhere,  I  have undertaken to prove the  great

importance, in an ethnological point of view, of the genealogies  of

the first book of Chronicles.1  It is  among these  that I  find the

eponyms of various Celtic peoples ; and  the concurrence  of their

names in various countries, from India in the east to Britain in the

west, has enabled me to open up one  of the most interesting  fields

of ethnological: research.   The  Sumerians  and  Accadians are  at

present occupying the attention which  Pelasgians and Etrurians once

held, and it is, therefore, with no  little satisfaction that I find the

Celtic  origines  shedding light upon  the  history of these  ancient

peoples.  It will be remembered that  the  Celts have ever claimed a

Scythian ancestry, and, therefore, it need  not be surprising to find

them related to the old Scythic or Turanian stock of Babylonia.

 1 The Horites, Canadian Journal, May, 1873.

  The Shepherd Kings of Egypt, Canadian Journal, April and August, 1874.

  The Primitive History of the Ionians, Canadian Journal, May, 1875.

  The Origin of the Phcenicians, British and Foreign Evangelical Review, July, 1875.

  The Hornets of Scripture, Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review, October, 1875.

  The Traditions of the People of Mexico and Peru identified with the Mythology of the Old

     World, Comptes Rendus du Congres International des Americanistes, Nancy, 1875.