In Britain
and on the Continent, the Druidical Schools were being formed
which were to hold knowledge to be their hereditary right -
to the extent that Julius Caesar was to write of them, that
they were the interpreters of the mysteries of religion, the
instructors of the youth, the determiners of all public and
private controversies as also of rewards and punishments, and
great proficients in the most sublime parts of philosophy, being
such as could make discourses to their scholars concerning
the stars and their motions, the magnitude of the Heaven and
the Earth, the Nature of things, and the power and majesty
of immortal gods - Christian O'Brien in Megalithic
Odyssey.
