OUR ARYAN FOREFATHERS 



Turkish and Hungarian are foreign tongues 

 brought into the Indo-European area by recent 

 intruders. Both these languages belong to the 

 Altaic, Turanian, or Tataric family, spoken by 

 nomadic tribes all over northern Asia, and in- \ 

 eluding in Europe the Finnish and its congeners 

 above mentioned. The Hungarian has especially 

 strong affinities with the Finnish, while the near- 

 est relatives to Turkish are to be found about 

 Khiva and Bokhara, in the Tataric region which 

 Russia is so rapidly subjugating. 



We have now arrived at a tolerably correct 

 idea of what is meant by the word Aryan. But 

 one important point must not be overlooked. 

 In its modern sense we have seen that the word 

 is a linguistic term. It describes community of 

 language. As we now use the word, Aryans are 

 people who speak Aryan, or Indo-European 

 languages. It is only in a secondary way that 

 this word can be used as an ethnological term, 

 describing community of race. We are so ac- 

 customed to consider language a mark of race 

 that it is difficult to avoid using linguistic epithets 

 in an ethnological sense, and a good deal of con- 

 fused thinking sometimes results from this. Wf 

 have above alluded to the Aryans as a dominan' 

 race, which long since overran Europe and k 

 now spreading over America ; yet it is easy to 

 see that we have no means of determining how 

 far the various peoples who speak Aryan Ian- 

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