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as well as in this country principally by philo- 

 logists. Indeed, the glory of Hindou-Koosh-Pamir 

 seems altogether to have departed. Professor 

 Max Mtiller, to whom Aryan philology owes so 

 much, will not say more now, than that he holds 

 by the conviction that the seat of the primitive 

 Aryans was " somewhere in Asia." Dr. Schrader 

 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 

 themselves with the philological arguments on 

 which these conclusions are based to the recently 

 published works of Dr. Schrader and Canon Tay- 

 lor ; l 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 " 



1 Schrader, Prehistoric Antiquities of the Aryan Peoples. 

 Translated by F. B. Jevons, M.A., 1890. Taylor, The Origin 

 of the Aryans, 1890. 



