Transcriber Note Obvious typos, missing accent marks and punctuation errors corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation, spelling, translation and dates left as in the original. Two of the three items noted in the Corrigenda changed. The third item, (p. 48, line 24, omit “is.”), was not changed because there was no such word on that line. A maltese cross character, ✠, is used in the Appendices. If the font in use on the device does not support this character, it may not display correctly. Italic text is represented by underscores surrounding the _italic text_. Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS. Footnotes have been moved to the end of their respective chapters. Superscript characters are preceded by a ^ character. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE CELTIC CHRISTIANITY OF CORNWALL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE CELTIC CHRISTIANITY OF CORNWALL DIVERS SKETCHES AND STUDIES BY THOMAS TAYLOR, M.A., F.S.A. VICAR OF ST. JUST-IN-PENWITH AUTHOR OF “THE LIFE OF DR. TAYLOR OF ASHBURNE” LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK BOMBAY, CALCUTTA AND MADRAS 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO M. JOSEPH LOTH PROFESSEUR AU COLLÈGE DE FRANCE IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF A FRIENDSHIP FROM WHICH I HAVE REAPED THE FRUITS OF DISCIPLESHIP Sed quanquam utilitates multae et magnae consecutae sunt, non sunt tamen ab earum spe causae diligendi profectae. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE In one of the most brilliant of modern books its author[1] calls attention to the common fallacy which assumes that “if you can find a principle which gives an adequate explanation of three different facts it is more likely to correspond with the truth than three different principles which give adequate explanations of the same facts severally.”