Excerpt from Cyclopedia of Universal History, Vol. 3 of 16: Embracing the Most Complete and Recent Presentation of the Subject in Two Principal Parts or Divisions of More Than Six Thousand Pages After the discussion of the Latin races I next consider the celts. The history of the race so called occupies the second book of the current volume. The Celtic races were before the' Romans in the possession and partial civilization of the greater part of Western Europe. But the preeminence and long continuity of the Romans have suggested their con sideration first after the history of the Greeks, and that of the descendent Latin races next, on the lines of immediate derivation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.