ABSTRACT
This is not the place to reproduce the picture of the social life of the Celts which has already been drawn for two Celtic peoples by M. Jullian in the third volume of his Histoire des Gaules and by Mr. Joyce in his admirable Social History of Ancient Ireland. We have not to describe, but to bring out, the essential features which give Celtic societies their pecular character, to show how far they had progressed when their independent evolution was arrested, and in particular to determine the native characteristics of their economic and industrial activity.
