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European origins with the civilisations of Western Asia. Hence, the facts having 

 been pointed out that appear to establish the above-indicated ethnological conclu- 

 sions, some illustrations will be given of the light that may be thrown on the 

 mythologies, traditions, and folk-lore, not only of Greece and of Rome, but also of 

 "Western Europe, by thus connecting the Pelasgians, Etruscans, and Iberians 

 with that stock of non-Semitic and non-Aryan White Races to which belonged the 

 founders of the Chaldean and Egyptian civilisations. Hitherto resemblances of the 

 gods, institutions, &c., of different peoples have been ordinarily explained by some 

 theory of ' borrowing,' But the general result of this paper is to show that the 

 resemblances attributed to ' borrowing ' are more truly to be attributed to racial 

 immixture. And finally it will be pointed out that the general proof of definite 

 relations between races and civilisations will be an important step towards 

 establishing the laws of man's histoiy. 



