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The Golden Age of Celtic Culture and Knowledge, Reincarnated.
"The Irish herbalists of today are, in the vernacular, knowledgeable persons, mostly women, who possess a
smattering of our folk botany. The vicissitudes of the nation have retarded the transmission of this knowledge until it is well nigh lost in the wilderness whence it was gained.
Our nature heritage is rich. We are
modern mystics despite our dogmatic religion. We believe that we are well within our rights when we protest against the attitude of some who would throw contempt on all learning that does not emanate directly from the
laboratory. Science, they say, has shaken off the trammels of tradition, and it is the fashion to deride empiricism. The triumphs of empiricism, however, cannot be gain-said. Our concern here is not to glorify the
herbalist or the homeopath, and certainly not to decry orthodox medicine. But somehow it seems that the ethno-botany of the Red Indian and Romany tribes claims the attention of our therapeutists and pharmacologists, while that
of the Celt is neglected and unknown. Is it not possible that autocratic science has caused us to overlook an Irish Mendel, or relegated to oblivion many a herb with virtues just as magical as those possessed by the
Lusmore? At all events it is not too much to hope that a study of the ethno-Botany of the Celts allied with the Pharmacology of today may win back some of the fame of the Irish Physicians of the long ago, and help at the same
time the common cause of humanity".
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