168 SOCIAL HEREDITY AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION 



extended so long was this host one organized system. 

 But we know too that these migrating hosts broke 

 up at the end of the migrating period into numerous 

 isolated bands, and that organization practically 

 disappeared. 



The race was an intensely warlike one, ever rest- 

 less, ever uneasy. "Whether this intense restlessness 

 was the cause of or produced by their coromunal 

 customs we can hardly say. So uneasy and restless 

 were the people that they could not and would not 

 long endure the controlling power of one authority. 

 This intense warlike nature led them into a condi- 

 tion of constant hostility to all around them. Within 

 the limits of a family there might be peace, but out- 

 side of these limits constant hostility was found. 

 Tribe was ever at war with tribe, a condition of 

 affairs that lasted long through the centuries, indeed 

 almost to the present era. The Ayran language orig- 

 inally possessed no word for "friendship," since 

 there were no friendships ; no word for ' 'hospitality " 

 is found in their original language, since they knew 

 not the idea. All this indicates the intense warlike 

 spirit of an ever-warring series of tribes. We know 

 too that the filial reverence, so prominent a factor 

 among the patriarchal nations, was to a large extent 

 wanting. It is true that the family of the Aryans, as 

 in other races, was commonly held together by pa- 

 ternal authority, and they commonly remained 

 together as a unit until the numbers reached perhaps 

 sixty or thereabouts. In these clans the members 

 were all related to each other; but the only visible 

 sign of their common relation was in the head of the 

 family, the patriarch, the house father. 



To him undoubtedly all of the members looked 



