298 THE ARYAN QUESTION V1 



ages have been, philologically speaking, non- 

 Aryans, or perhaps one should say " pro-Aryans." 

 I suppose it may be safely assumed that Sanskrit 

 and Zend and Greek were fully differentiated in 

 the year 1500 B.C. If so, how much further back 

 must the existence of the primitive Aryan, from 

 which these proceeded, be dated ? And how 

 much further yet, that real ju/ventus mundi (so 

 far as man is concerned) when primitive Aryan 

 was in course of formation ? And how much 

 further still, the differentiation of the nascent 

 Aryan blond long-head race from the primitive 

 stock of mankind ? 



If any one maintains that the blond long-headed 

 people, among whom, by the hypothesis, the 

 primitive Aryan language was generated may have 

 formed a separate race as far back as the pleisto- 

 cene epoch, when the first unquestionable records 

 of man make their appearance, I do not see that 

 he goes beyond possibility though, of course, that 

 is a very different thing from proving his case. 

 But, if the blond long-heads are thus ancient, the 

 problem of their primitive seat puts on an alto- 

 gether new aspect. Speculation must take into 

 account climatal and geographical conditions 

 widely different from those which obtain in 

 northern Eurasia at the present day. During 

 much of the vast length of the pleistocene period, 

 it would seem that men could no more have lived 

 either in Britain north of the Thames, or in 



