62 THE INTELLECTUAL RISE IN ELECTRICITY. 



their land became inadequate to the support of its popula- 

 tion, the excess again migrated and the process was re- 

 peated. In this way the Mongolic hordes originally con- 

 quered China and penetrated to Moscow and Poland. In 

 this way, the dynasty of the Great Mogul was founded in 

 India, and that of the Manchoos established itself in mod- 

 ern China, where it still exists, as the long queues of the 

 Celestials bear witness. 1 



The genesis of the Etruscans has always been a disputed 

 point among ethnologists, who have assigned them to the 

 Greeks, to the Egyptians, to the Phoenicians, to the 

 Canaanites, to the Libyans, to the Armenians, to the Can- 

 tabrians or Basques, to the Goths, to the Celts, and to 

 the Hyksos. There are persuasive arguments, however, 

 which connect them with the great Ugric family. Their 

 language has been shown to be very similar to that of the 

 Finns and the Tartars, and their pictures exhibit them 

 with high cheek-bones and oblique eyes, such as the 

 Aryans and Semites never have ; and again, unlike these 

 last, they were unemotional and stubborn and conserva- 

 tive. They reverenced ancestors, and built tombs and 

 cared for the needs of the dead as if they were living, all 

 of which is foreign to the thoughts and feelings of the 

 Aryan or the Semite, who bade farewell to his dead at the 

 brink of the grave and proclaimed his own vitality in his 

 palaces and temples. 



They came either directly or after a sojourn in Egypt 

 from Lydia in Asia Minor, where the magnetite is abund- 

 ant ; still earlier from that cradle of the human race, the 

 Asiatic highlands, whence still earlier again, others of 

 their kin wandered off, even before the old ice was gone, 

 into the caves of Aquitaine and to the Swiss lakes, where 

 their bones are still found mingled with those of the rein- 

 deer and the cave-bear, and with their stone axes and bone 

 needles ; while their characteristic tombs and mounds ex- 

 tend over Europe and Asia. 



1 Taylor : Etruscan Researches. London, 1874. 



