text:  His character of the Gauls as a people is ably and well given; but here we must let him speak for himself:-- "The salient characteristics of the Gaulish family--those which distinguish it the most in my opinion from the other races of men--may be thus summed up:--A personal bravery unequaled amongst the people of antiquity; a spirit frank impetuous open to every impression eminently intelligent; but joined to that an extreme frivolity want of constancy a marked repugnance to the ideas of discipline and order so strong in the German race much ostentation--in fine a perpetual disunion the consequence of excessive vanity