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sums up in favour of European Russia; while Herr 

 Penka would have us transplant the home of the 

 primitive Aryans from Pamir in the far east to the 

 Scandinavian peninsula in the far west. 



I must refer those who desire to acquaint them- 

 selves with the philological arguments on which 

 these conclusions are based to the recently pub- 

 lished works of Dr. Schrader and Canon Taylor; * 

 and to Penka's " Die Herkunft der Arier," which, 

 in spite of the strong spice of the Uhlan which 

 runs through it, I have found extremely well worth 

 study. I do not pretend to be able to look at the 

 Aryan question under any but the biological aspect; 

 to which I now turn. 



Any biologist who studies the history of the 

 Aryan question, and, taking the philological facts 

 on trust, regards it exclusively from the point of 

 view of anthropology, will observe that, very early, 

 the purely biological conception of " race " illegiti- 

 mately mixed itself up with the ideas derived from 

 pure philology. It is quite proper to speak of 

 Aryan " people," because, as we have seen, the ex- 

 istence of the language implies that of a people 

 who speak it; it might be equally permissible to call 

 Latin people all those who speak Romance dia- 

 lects. But, just as the application of the term 



* Schrader, Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peo- 

 ples. Translated by F. B. Jevons, M.A., 1890. Taylor, 

 The Origin of the Aryans, 1890. 



