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very early period into two diverging branches, namely, into 

 the Egyptian and Arabic branches. The Egyptian, or 

 African branch, the Dyssemites — which sometimes under 

 the name of Hamites are entirely separated from the Semites 

 — embraces the large group of Berbers, who occupy the 

 whole of north Africa, and in earlier times also peopled 

 the Canary Islands, and, finally, also the group of the 

 Ethiopians, the Bedsha, Galla, Danakil, Somali, and 

 other tribes which occupy all the north-eastern shores of 

 Africa as far as the equator. The Arabic, or Asiatic branch, 

 that is, the Eusemites, also called Semites in a narrow sense, 

 embrace the inhabitants of the large Ai-abian peninsula, 

 the primaeval family of genuine Arabians (" primaeval type 

 of the Semites"), and also the most highly developed Semi- 

 tic groups, the Jews, or Hebrews, and the Aramaeans — the 

 Syrians and Chaldjeans. A colony of the southern Arabs 

 (the Himjarites), which crossed the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, 

 has peopled Abyssinia. 



Lastly, the Indo-Germanic race, which has far surpassed 

 all the other races of men in mental development, sepa- 

 rated at a very early period, like the Semitic, into two 

 diverging branches, the Ario-Romaic and the Slavo- 

 Germanic branches. Out of the former arose on the one 

 hand the Arians (Indians and Iranians), on the other the 

 Grceco-Roman (Greeks and Albanians, Italians and Kelts). 

 Out of the Slavo-Germanic branch were developed on the 

 one hand the Slavonians (Russian, Bulgarian, Tehee, and 

 Baltic tribes), on the other the Gerinani (Scandinavians 

 and Germans, Netherlanders and Anglo-Saxons). August 

 Schleicher has explained, in a very clear genealogical form, 

 how the further ramifications of the Indo-Germanic race may 



