INDEX 



Vocabulary, community of, not 

 enough to establish community 

 of language, 98101 ; of words 

 borrowed and of words derived, 

 101, 102, 106, 107 ; of Old 

 Aryan, 112, 113. 



Volcanic heat, action of, on oldest 

 rocks, 4. 



Volcanoes, of the Atlantic ridge in 

 Miocene times, 21 ; of the Brit- 

 ish Isles, 21, 26. 



Voltaire, F. M. A. de, and social 

 conditions, 174. 



Vowel-changes in Aryan languages, 

 108. 



Wales in Miocene age, 21. 



Wall, Aryan words for, 117. 



Wallace, A. R., his Island Life, 14, 

 64 ; on snow and ice, 52 ; scien- 

 tific achievements of, 319; coin- 

 cidence between his discovery of 

 natural selection and Darwin's, 

 330. 



Wallachian as a Latin language, 85. 



Walnut-trees in Cretaceous epoch , 6. 



War engines of the ancients, 188. 



Warfare, necessity of, 189 ; decline 

 of, in modern times, 189, 207; 

 decline of the spirit of, 190, 192; 

 considered criminal, 192 ; modern 

 methods of, more humane, 192 ; 

 in primitive society, 202, 290 5 

 extinction of private, 207. 



Was there a Primeval Mother 

 Tongue ? 132-157. 



Waterhouse, assisted in publication 

 of results of voyage of Beagle, 



3*3- 



Watt, James, and social conditions, 



187, 1 88 ; friend of Erasmus 



Darwin, 310. 



Weapons, laws against carrying, 208. 

 Weasels, Miocene, 22 ; kept by the 



Greeks and Romans, 126. 

 Wedgwood, Hensleigh, cousin of 



C. R. Darwin, 311. 



Wedgwood, Josiah, grandfather of 

 C. R. Darwin, 311. 



Welsh language as Kymric, 85. 



What we learn from Old Arya 

 Words, 97-131. 



Whitney, J. D., on presence of 

 man in Portugal during Pliocene 

 period, 28; h\a Auriferous Gravels 

 of the Sierra Nevada, 28. 



Whitney, W. D., on Aryan lan- 

 guage, 80 ; his Study of Language, 

 1 01 ; on the political organization 

 of the primitive Aryans, 130. 



Willows in Pliocene age, 27. 



Windermere, meaning of the word, 

 128. 



Window, Aryan words for, 1 1 8. 



Wine, an Old Aryan word, 127. 



Witanagemote, 177. 



Wolf and the Lamb, fable of the, 



212. 



Wolves, Pliocene, 27 ; Pleistocene, 

 29 ; Recent, 41 j representative 

 of, in Eocene, 320. 



Wundt, Wilhelm, his Physiologist he 

 Psychologic, 306. 



Ximenes, Cardinal, his bonfire of 

 books, 148. 



Yakutsk, temperature of, 62. 

 Youth, period of physical, according 



to Francis Galton, 308 ; of C. 



R. Darwin, 308, 309. 

 Yule-tide, adoption of, 239. 



Zarathustra or Zoroaster, 71. 



Zend, one of the Aryan group, 74, 

 80, 83 ; resemblance between San- 

 skrit and, 83. 



Zendavesta, Ahura-Mazda in, 68, 

 70 ; legend of the sixteen coun- 

 tries in, 68, 70 ; antiquity of, 

 69 ; and Veda, compared, 73. 



Zoroaster, prophet of Ahura-Mazda, 



Zoroastrians, schism among, 73. 



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