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consciously warped by strong monogenistic pro- 

 clivities, which, at bottom, however respectable 

 and philanthropic their origin, had nothing to 

 do with science. So the patent fact that men 

 of Aryan speech presented widely diverse racial 

 characters was explained away by maintaining 

 that the physical differentiation was post-Aryan ; 

 to put it broadly, that the Aryans in Hindoo- 

 Koosh-Pamir were truly of one race ; but that, 

 while one colony, subjected to the sweltering 

 heat of the Gangetic plains, had fined down and 

 darkened into the Bengalee, another had bleached 

 and shot up, under the cool and misty skies of the 

 north, into the semblance of Pomeranian Grena- 

 diers ; or of blue-eyed, fair-skinned, six-foot Scotch 

 Highlanders. I do not know that any of the 

 Uhlans who fought so vigorously under this flag 

 are left now. I doubt if any one is prepared to 

 say that he believes that the influence of external 

 conditions, alone, accounts for the wide physical 

 differences between Englishmen and Bengalese. 

 So far as India is concerned, the internal evidence 

 of the old literature sufficiently proves that the 

 Aryan invaders were " white " men. It is hardly 

 to be doubted that they intermixed with the 

 dark Dravidian aborigines ; and that the high- 

 caste Hindoos are what they are in virtue of the 

 Aryan blood which they have inherited, l and of 



1 I am unable to discover good grounds for the severity of 

 the criticism, in the name of " the anthropologists," with which 

 Professor Max Miiller's assertion that the same blood runs in the 



