the perfection of their physical type. The writer had the 

 privilege of phcitoigraphi-ag at Olympia the only suxviving 

 authentic statue by the most finished of the sculptors of 

 classic Greece. We refer to the Hermes of Praxitelles. 

 Tailing this as the type of the Aryan Greek, I show 

 many i^ictures taken by myself in Greec-e and in India of 

 this same type. 



The priests of the Greek church are alinost universally 

 perfect specimens of this type. 



The priests of India are by tradition pure Aryans. 

 Both are aanong the finest looking men in the world. Ob- 

 serve the likeness between the two, as shown in my picture. 



It being universally admitted that the people of India, 

 and Europe are coiniected by their common Aryan langu- 

 ages, is it not clear that the physical type that is common 

 to both must be tiie x'Vryan type. 



IiKlJa. 



The people of India ai'e largely Aryan, that is, people 

 similar to ourselves and of the eaone general race division. 

 Thousands of years ago the Arj-an race was located prob- 

 ably sonq.cw-here in Central Asia, possibly in the great 

 steppes of Eu-ssia ne-ar tlie Ural Mountains, or possibly 

 farther south in Persia or Afghanistan. No one knows just 

 where. They sent out repeated swarms of immigrants from 

 the parent hive. Greeks, Italians, Celts, Teutons and 

 Scla"\^s— one after the other swarmed forth and sought new 

 homes in the West, that is, m Europe, and they were our 

 ancestors. But sorno swanus froin the same parent hive 

 went south over tlie mountains till they reached the fertile 

 river valleys of India, and there they swept eaistward in 

 conquering hordes. They exterminated or ensla.ved the 

 aboriginal inhabitants, and took all the fertile country of 

 the river valleys. From thence they spread their conquests 

 north and south. Thus these people of India- are relatives 

 of oiu- own. Th(;ir language is like ours and has the same 

 root or basis. We have to study the Sanskrit to under- 



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