He did not content himself with letting the same circumstances, which had already in great part Romanized the south province, produce their effect likewise in the north; but, like a genuine statesman, he sought to stimulate the natural course of development and, moreover, to shorten as far as possible the always painful period of transition.

To say nothing of the admission of a number of Celts of rank into Roman citizenship and even of several perhaps into the Roman senate, it was probably Caesar who introduced, although with certain restrictions, the Latin instead of the native tongue as the official language within the several cantons in Gaul, and who introduced the Roman instead of the national monetary system on the footing of reserving the coinage of gold and of denarii to the Roman authorities, while the smaller money was to be coined by the several cantons, but only for circulation within the cantonal bounds, and this too in accordance with the Roman standard.

We may smile at the Latin jargon, which the dwellers by the Loire and the Seine henceforth employed in accordance with orders;( 52) but these barbarisms were pregnant with a greater future than the correct Latin of the capital.
Perhaps too, if the cantonal constitution in Gaul afterwards appears more closely approximated to the Italian urban constitution, and the chief places of the canton as well as the common councils attain a more marked prominence in it than was probably the case in the original Celtic organization, the change may be referred to Caesar.

No one probably felt more than the political heir of Gaius Gracchus and of Marius, how desirable in a military as well as in a political point of view it would have been to establish a series of Transalpine colonies as bases of support for the new rule and starting-points of the new civilization.

If nevertheless he confined himself to the settlement of his Celtic or German horsemen in Noviodunum( 53) and to that of the Boii in the canton of the Haedui (54)--which latter settlement already rendered quite the services of a Roman colony in the war with Vercingetorix( 55)-- the reason was merely that his farther plans did not permit him to put the plough instead of the sword into the hands of his legions.
What he did in later years for the old Roman province in this respect, will be explained in its own place; it is probable that the want of time alone prevented him from extending the same system to the regions which he had recently subdued.
The Catastrophe of the Celtic Nation Traits Common to the Celts and Irish All was over with the Celtic nation.