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conditiou of tbe speakers of the Indo-European parent speech according 

 to tbe sobered estimate of recent linguistic research. Tbe resembbmce 

 is certainly very striking, tbougb, on tbe other band, it can not be denied 

 that archaeological science is still in its infancy, and that Dr. Penkatoo 

 often assumes that a word common to the European languages belonged 

 to tbe parent speech, an assumption which will not, of course, be ad- 

 mitted by his opponents. 



What more nearly concerns us here however is the name we should 

 give to the race or people who spoke the parent language. We can not 

 call them Indo-Eiiropeans; that would lead to endless ambiguities, while 

 the term itself has already been appropriated in a linguistic sense. Dr. 

 Penka has called them. Aryans, and I can see no better title with which 

 to endow them. The name is short; it has already been used in an 

 ethnological as well as in a linguistic sense, and since our German 

 friends have rejected it in its linguistic ai)plication it is open to 

 every one to confine it to a purely ethnological meaning. I know that 

 the author has protested against such an application of the term; but 

 it is not tbe first time that a father has been robbed of his offspring, 

 and he can not object to the robbery when it is committed in the cause 

 of science. For some time past the name of Aryan has been without a 

 definition, while the first speakers of the Indo-European parent speech 

 have been vainly demanding a name; and the priests of anthropology 

 cannot do better than to lead them to the font of science and there 

 baptize tbem with the name of Aryan. 



