[478] Sismondi, Républiques, i, 95. See below, pp. 198-99.
[479] E.g. Wieseler, Die deutsche Nationalität der kleinasiatischen Galater, 1877; Holtzmann, Kelten und Germanen, 1855.
[480] History of Rome, bk. ii, ch. iv.
[481] The author has examined a later deliverance of Mommsen's on the subject in The Saxon and the Celt, pt. iii, § 1.
[482] In a later passage (bk. v, ch. 7) Mommsen credits the Celts with "unsurpassed fervour of national feeling." His History abounds in such contradictions.
[483] In the passage cited in the last note, the historian asserts that the Celts were unable "to attain, or barely to tolerate ... any sort of fixed military discipline." Such is the consistency of malice.
[484] Cp. Elton, Origins of English History, 2nd ed. 1890, p. 115.
[485] Tacitus, Germania, c. 26; Cæsar, Bell. Gall. vi, 21.
[486] See Virchow, as cited in Penka's Die Herkunft der Arier, 1886, p. 98.
[487] "Never was there a more rapid conquest than that of the vast kingdom of the Vandals" (Sismondi, Fall of the Roman Empire, Eng. tr. i. 221).