The druids / by J. Stevenson Bushnan.

  • Bushnan, J. Stevenson (John Stevenson), 1808?-1884.
Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The druids / by J. Stevenson Bushnan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following Address to tlie Wilts Archaeological and Natural History Society, was delivered at a Conversazione held in the Palace of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. I have two reasons for its publication. In the first place, although people talk freely about Druids and Druidism, they know very little of either. This may be partly due to the fact that archaeology is by no means a popular study. There exists a very common supposition that the minds most adapted to antiquarian pursuits are distinguished by a proneness to tiresome minuteness in research, and to dispropor¬ tionate generality in speculation. Again, the com¬ munication of such knowledge is prevented by difficulty in obtaining it. Books on the subject of Druidism are numerous; but the best are too costly for the private collections of men not specially interested in the subject. They are only to be found in some of the provincial libraries of antiquarian and topo¬ graphical societies; and only there for the use of their members. Hence it is that many intelligent persons,