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waves, every one of which Ave suppose departed on its own 

 account from Central Asia, according to the following 

 scheme of arrangement which commences with those 

 most ancient and hypothetical and ends with those which 

 are the most recent and proto-historic : 



(//) Primordial Leucoderms (Cro-Magnon r), 



(b) Proto- Aryan Leucoderms (proceeded to the 

 plains of Eastern Europe) 



(<?) Western Aryan Leucoderms (Italo- Celtics), 



(d) Aryan Leucoderms of the Desert of Takla- 

 Makan (Language Tokhari) 



(e) Aryan Leucoderms of Asia Minor (Hittites ? 



then Mitanni) 



(f) Aryan Leucoderms of Iran and India. 



One can no longer admit the old theory of the push 

 from behind, of one legion following another, since in 

 that case it would he incomprehensible how the Tokhari- 

 speaking peoples of the hasin of the Tarim could be 

 found among the Italo-Celtics and the Hittites. Adopting 

 instead the image of a centre of pulsation, which sent 

 ethnic waves now in one direction now in another, the 

 contiguity in space is no longer indispensable for explain- 

 ing the contiguity of language. Anthropology has 

 nothing that goes against, rather it comes to the support 

 of the linguistic evidence, in view of the fact that the 

 presence of the European face lias been established 

 among the present brachycephals of the Pamir and in the 

 natives still remaining in the desert of Takla-Makan. 

 Moreover, it is an established fact that here and there in 

 Central Asia, one finds blondes, for which we have the 

 authoritative testimony of Ujfalvy. " All the Iranians 

 have chestnut hair, but one meets with blondes among 

 them, more among the Tajiks of the plain than among 



