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the Roman Em ; en not less on in his 
Ariana Antiqua hesitatingly ventured to class the Saks of Sindh 
with the English-speaking peoples of t a 
of ethnography. 
69. The Greek culture imported into these regions by the 
eastern conquests of Alexander had a most profound effect, on 
the Getic peoples more especially. For the first time these popula- 
tions found themselves in contact with a civilization which 
they were not slow to recognize as superior to their own ; yet the 
difference was only external, and, as they soon discovered, by no 
means mental. Mentally indeed they were at no loss when 
pitted against their rivals. Both belonged to the great Blond 
race, which for good or evil has in historical times dominated the 
world ; although it is true that they belonged to different families, 
the Hellenes being closely allied with the golden-haired branch 
to which the term an is alone correctly applied, while the 
Getae and their allies fall into the flaxen-haired branch, mytho- 
Intellectually the two races stood on an equality ; if 
learn, and from the beginning took their place alongside their 
teachers ; even if in the arts they were content to sit at their feet. 
This is the true explanation of the in 
tions spread through the whole of Northern India, and even 
penetrated through Baktria, and what is now Eastern Turkestan 
to far-distant China. 
East of Gree 
