Note 62 — THE TWENTY-EIGHTH PAPYRUS

The writer would seem to have hit upon some remote parts of Wales, or perhaps Scotland, to which Roman civilization had not penetrated. This is rather unfortunate. For the general condition of the “sea-girt island” cf. Codrington, Roman Roads in Britain, and Mr. Haverfield’s amazingly luminous monographs on Roman Britain. At the same time, we must not forget that the Scotch did really worship demons originally, which is why their descendants have jumped at Puritan theology, as Mr. Chesterton expressly demonstrates. A. H.