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very early period into two diverging branches, namely, into 
the Egyptian and Arabic branches. The Lyyptian, or 
African branch, the Dyssemites—which sometimes under 
the name of Hamites are entirely separated from the Semites 
—embraces the large group of Berbers, who occupy the 
whole of north Africa, and in earlier times also peopled 
the Canary Islands, and, finally, also the group of the 
Ethiopians, the SBedsha, Galla, Danakil, Somali, and 
other tribes which occupy all the north-eastern shores of 
Africa as far as the equator. The Arabic, or Asiatic branch, 
that is, the Husemites, also called Semites in a narrow sense, 
embrace the inhabitants of the large Arabian peninsula, 
the primeval family of genuine Arabians (“primeval type 
of the Semites”), and also the most highly developed Semi- 
tic groups, the Jews, or Hebrews, and the Aramzeans—the 
Syrians and Chaldeans. A colony of the southern Arabs 
(the Himjarites), which crossed the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, 
has peopled Abyssinia. 
Lastly, the Indo-Germanic race, which has far surpassed 
all the other races of men in mental development, sepa- 
rated at a very early period, like the Semitic, into two 
diverging branches, the Ario-Romaic and the Slavo- 
Germanic branches. Out of the former arose on the one 
hand the Arians (Indians and Iranians), on the other the 
Greco-Roman (Greeks and Albanians, Italians and Kelts). 
Out of the Slavo-Germanice branch were developed on the 
one hand the Slavonians (Russian, Bulgarian, Tchec, and 
Baltie tribes), on the other the Germani (Scandinavians 
and Germans, Netherlanders and Anglo-Saxons). August 
Schleicher has explained, in a very clear genealogical form, 
how the further ramifications of the Indo-Germanic race may 
