George Frederick Maclear

Conversion of the West: the English George Frederick Maclear

The wave of migration which flung the Celt upon the European Continent, was succeeded by a second wave, which bore other tribes from the same A ryan homes to the frontiers of the Roman Empire. The masters of the world chose to call these new comers, as they called the Greeks, by a name which was not their own. This name for them was Germans, A mongst themselves, on the other hand, they were Diutisc, Thiudisco, Deutscher, or, in its Latin form. Teutons. Into the greater part of their country the Romans never penetrated after the times of Drusus and Germanicus. They regarded them as barbarians, but admired the austerity and purity of their manners, the honour they paid their women, their spirit ot independence, and warlike energy. They never dreamt II.
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