The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations Proved by a Comparison of Their
-; pi lu n iillnli'l.I n/ 7' y : THE EASTERN ORIGIN CELTIC NATIONS PROVED BY A COMPABISON OF THEIK r>I^4^LECTS WITH TEE SANSKRIT, GREEK, LATIN, AND TEUTONIC LANGUAGES FORMING A SUPPLEMENT TO RESEARCHES INTO THE PHYSICAL HISTORY OF MANKIND. JAMES COWLES PRICHARD, M.D., F.R.S., ETC. EDITED BY R. G. LATHAM, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., LONDON: HOULSTON AT^D WRIGHT, 65, PATERXOSTER ROW AND BERI^ARD QUARITCH, ORIENTAL AND PHILOLOGICAL PUBLISHER, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE. 1857. STEPHEN AUSTIN, -4M PRIKTEH, HERTFOHD. THE REVEREND WILLIAM DANIEL CONYBEARE, A.M., F.R.S., ETC., EECTOE OF SULLY, PROFESSOR JACOB GRIMM, THE UNIVEESITY OF GOETTINGEN, THIS WOEK IS INSCEIBED, IN TESTIMONY OF THE HIGH RESPECT AND REGARD THE AUTHOR. ; EDITOH^S PREFACE. When the publisher of the present edition, after stating the extent to which Dr. Prichard's Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations was a work which still kept np the interest and importance which it had at the time of its publication, added the request that I would undertake the Editorship of a reprint, the first question I asked was why he had preferred an investigator in general ethnology and philology to a special Keltic scholar, either Welsh or Irish remarking, at the same time, that there were many to be found who were, doubtless, both able and willing to undertake the required editorship ? Even if these were wanting, Sanskrit scholars, familiar with comparative philology, would be fitter editors than myself ; these being, at least, as abundant as the others ; and the Sanskrit language being, in the book itself, of equal prominence and importance with the Keltic.
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