404 \ARIETIE8 OF MANKIND. 



" These were the most ancient colonies which emigrated into 

 the distant parts of the earth. Accordingly they exhibit no affi- 

 nities with the central nations in their languages, manners, or 

 superstitions. For they went forth when language was as yet 

 imperfectly formed, before manners had acquired any peculiar 

 character, and previous to the age of idolatry. 



" The condition of mankind in their primeval seats improved. 

 They became hunters, and afterwards shepherds. Sabaism, or 

 the worship of the heavenly bodies, now prevailed among them. 

 Some tribes of hunters and perhaps of shepherds, ascended the 

 chain of Paropamisus, and spread themselves gradually over the 

 high central plains of Asia, on one side into Siberia and Scan- 

 dinavia, and on the other into Kamtschatka, and through the 

 adjacent and probably then connected continent of America. 

 These are the Mongoles and other similar races whom we have 

 traced through Asia and the north of Europe, and the primitive 

 inhabitants of the New World. In the languages of these na- 

 tions, though much diversified and very imperfect in structure, 

 a certain degree of affinity may be clearly marked. In their 

 superstitions, vestiges remain of the primitive Sabaism, even in 

 their more distant settlements. Their physical characters re- 

 semble. In other particulars proofs may be collected in many 

 remote regions of -the common orgin of these races. 



" Meanwhile agriculture was invented in Asia, and the divi- 

 sion of labour connected with the institution of casts, which 

 seems to have extended through all the primitive regions, gave a 

 new character to human society. The establishment of a go- 

 verning or military class, and of a sacerdotal class, gave birth to 

 political order. The priests mingling allegory and fable with 

 the early Sabaism, and with the relics of genuine theism and true 

 historical tradition, which had probably been preserved in a tew 

 families, formed a complex system of mythology. The myste- 

 ries were invented. Philosophy began to be cultivated, and a 

 more perfect language was formed. 



The Celtic under their Druids, a branch of the eastern hierar- 



