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the Aryan region, other dialectic groups made 

 their appearance; but whatever development they 

 may have attained, these have failed to maintain 

 themselves in the battle with the Finno-tataric 

 tribes, or with the stronger among their own kith 

 and kin.* 



Thus I think that the most plausible hypo- 

 thetical answers which can be given to the two 

 questions which we put at starting are these. 

 There was and is an Aryan race — that is to say, 

 the characteristic modes of speech, termed Aryan, 

 were developed among the blond long-heads alone, 

 however much some of them may have been 

 modified by the importation of non-Aryan ele- 

 ments. As to the " home " of the Aryan race, it 

 w r as in Europe, and lay chiefly east of the central 

 highlands and west of the Ural. From this re- 

 gion it spread west, along the coasts of the North 

 Sea to our islands, wdiere, probably, it met the 

 brunet long-heads; to France, where it found both 

 these and the brunet short-heads; to Switzerland 

 and South Germany, where it impinged on the 

 brunet short-heads; to Italy, where brunet short- 

 heads seem to have abounded in the north and 

 long-heads in the south; and to the Balkan penin- 

 sula, about the earliest inhabitants of which we 

 know next to nothing. There are two ways to 



* See the views of J. Schmidt (stated and discussed in 

 Schrader and Jevons, pp. 63-67), with which those here set 

 forth are substantially identical. 

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