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differentiation was post-Aryan; to put it broadly, 

 that the Aryans in Hindoo-Koosh-Pamir were truly 

 of one race; but that, while one colony, subjected 

 to the sweltering heat of the Gangetic plains, had 

 fined down and darkened into the Bengalee, an- 

 other had bleached and shot up, under the cool and 

 misty skies of the north, into the semblance of 

 Pomeranian Grenadiers; or of blue-eyed, fair- 

 skinned, six-foot Scotch Highlanders. I do not 

 know that any of the Uhlans who fought so vigor- 

 ously under this flag are left now. I doubt if any 

 one is prepared to say that he believes that the in- 

 fluence of external conditions, alone, accounts for 

 the wide physical differences between Englishmen 

 and Bengalese. So far as India is concerned, the 

 internal evidence of the old literature sufficiently 

 proves that the Aryan invaders were " white " men. 

 It is hardly to be doubted that they intermixed 

 with the dark Dravidian aborigines; and that the 

 high-caste Hindoos are what they are in virtue of 

 the Aryan blood which they have inherited,* and 



* I am unable to discover good grounds for the severity 

 of the criticism, in the name of " the anthropologists," 

 with which Professor Max Miiller's assertion that the 

 same blood runs in the veins of English soldiers " as in 

 the veins of the dark Bengalese," and that there is " a 

 legitimate relationship between Hindoo, Greek, and Teu- 

 ton," has been visited. So far as I know anything about 

 anthropology, I should say that these statements may be 

 correct literally, and probably are so substantially. I 

 do not know of any good reason for the physical differ- 

 ences between a high-caste Hindoo and a Dravidian. ex- 

 cept the Aryan blood in the veins of the former: and the 



