Those piles of rude magnificence, Stonehenge and Abury, are in vain produced in proof of their mathematical abilities.

These vast structures have nothing which can be admired, but the greatness of the work; and they are not the only instances of the great things which the mere labor of many hands united, and persevering in their purpose, may accomplish with very little help from mechanics.

This may be evinced by the immense buildings and the low state of the sciences among the original Peruvians.
The Druids were eminent above all the philosophic lawgivers of antiquity for their care in impressing the doctrine of the soul's immortality on the minds of their people, as an operative and leading principle.

This doctrine was inculcated on the scheme of Transmigration, which some imagine them to have derived from Pythagoras.

But it is by no means necessary to resort to any particular teacher for an opinion which owes its birth to the weak struggles of unenlightened reason, and to mistakes natural to the human mind.