ABSTRACT
WE have tried to set forth the main features of the history of the Celts. But another question arises regarding the Celtic peoples ; we must inquire what were the bonds which held men together in social organization, how families and clans were constituted, how land was owned (in whole or in part, in precarious possession or in permanent, absolute ownership, in common or individually, in fairly distributed lots or in aristocratic tenures), what was their law, what were their gods, and their priests, how they traded, and travelled, and built. The structure of society ; private law ; public law and political institutions ; religion ; economic life ; craftsmanship ; morphology ; art and literature—these are the headings for a description of Celtic society.
