There is evidence of a similar idealism having once existed among the Britons and the Jews in the second Epistle of Monk Gildas to the following effect: "The Britons, contrary to all the world and hostile to Roman customs, not only in the mass but also in the tonsure, are with the Jews slaves to the shadows of things to come rather than to the truth".[510] By "truth" Gildas here of course means his own particular "doxy," and the salient point of his testimony is the assertion that practically alone in the world the British and the Jews were dreamy, immaterial, superstitious idealists. That the Idaeians of Crete, Candia, or Idaea were singularly pure or candid may be judged from the testimony of Sir Arthur Evans: "Religion entered at every turn, and it was, perhaps, owing to the religious control of art that among all the Minoan representations--now to be numbered by thousands--no single example of indecency has come to light".[511] Referring to British candour, Procopius affirms: "So highly rated is chastity among these barbarians that if even the bare mention of marriage occurs without its completion the maiden seems to lose her fair fame".[512] This alleged purity of the British Maid is substantiated by the words _prude_ and _proud_, both of which like _pretty_, _purity_, and _pride_, are radically pure Ide. Skeat defines _prude_ as a woman of affected modesty, and adds "see _prowess_"; but prudery has little connection with prowess, and is it really necessary to assume that primitive prudery was "affected"? The Jewish JAH is translated by scholars as "pure Being"; the passionate adoration of purity is expressed in the prehistoric hymn quoted _ante_ page 183, Hu the Mighty was pre-eminently pure, and it is thus likely that the ancient Pere, Jupiter, or Aubrey meant originally the _Pure_. We have seen that Jupiter, the divine _Power_, was conceived indifferently as either a man or an immortal maid: a maid is a virgin, and the words _maid_ or _mayde_, like Maida, is radically "Mother Ida". According to Skeat _maid_ is related to Anglo-Saxon _magu_, a son or kinsman; and one may thus perhaps account for _brother_, _bruder_, or _frater_, as meaning originally the produce or progeny of the same _pere_--but not necessarily the same _pair_. To St. Bride may be assigned not only the terms _bride_ and bridegroom, or brideman; but likewise _breed_ and _brood_. Skeat connects the latter with the German _bruhen_ to scald, but a good mother does not scald her brood, and as St. Bride was known anciently as "The Presiding Care"; even although _bairn_ is the same word as _burn_, we may assume that St. Bride did not burn her _brat_.