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which they carried with them, and planted wherever they made settlements. On the contrary, in Gaul, all the freedom and power chiefly centered among the Druids and the chief men, whom Cæsar calls Equites or Knights: but the inferior people were little better than in a state of slavery; whereas the meanest German was independent and free.
But if none of these proofs of their being two distinct people existed, the difference between their religion and language would decide the controversy at once.
Among the Celts, there was a peculiar Hierarchy or sacred College, which had the entire conduct of all their religious and even civil affairs. The members of this institution, who were Druids, served them both for Magistrates and Priests: but among the Gothic and Teutonic
