text:  For his own part the ground he goes upon is this that the names of men and places among the Chaldeans Egyptians Greeks and Latins as also among the Scythians Celts Etruscans and Belgae (which latter he says are all Celts ) are properly significant in that Scythic tongue which the Belgae and Dutch to this day preserve; whence it follows says he "as an argument superior to all exception that not only the Chaldaic Egyptian Greek and Latin tongues (he does not mention the Hebrew which he concedes to be the language of Paradise) are inferior and posterior to the tongue now used by the Belgae and Dutch; but also that the same Belgae and Dutchmen are extracted from a more ancient people and a higher original than the said Chaldeans Egyptians Greeks or Romans