For want of such accommodations we should be in the lowest state of savage life. […] It is suitable to wisdom, which discerns where the careless are blind, to take such a bird as her emblem. […] The mythology of the ancients is of such high antiquity, that it is impossible to go back to its origin. […] It is easy to see why the Christian religion, which declares all men equal, should not be introduced among such a people. […] The Druids were held in such veneration that the people under their influence dared not disobey them in any thing.