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inferred from the evidence of language, that at some 

 remote period the Egyptians belonged to the same 

 stock as the mountaineers of Armenia, the Chinese to 

 the same stock as the Highlanders of Central Asia ; 

 and that at a period still more remote, the Turanian or 

 Chinese Tartar, the Arian or Indo-European, and the 

 Shemitic races and languages, were one. Upon this 

 last point philologists are not agreed, though the 

 balance of authority is in favour of the view expressed. 

 But as regards the descent of the English and Hindoos 

 from the same tribe of Asiatic mountaineers, that is 

 now as much a fact of history as the common descent 

 of the English and the Normans from the same race of 

 pirates on the Baltic shores. The Celts migrated first 

 into Europe : they were followed by the Grasco-Italian 

 people, and then by the German-Sclavonians, the Per- 

 sians and Hindoos remaining longest in their primeval 

 homes. The great difference between the various 

 breeds of the Indo-European race is partly due to 

 their intermixture with the natives of the countries 

 which they colonised and conquered. In India the 

 Arians found a black race, which yet exist in the hills 

 and jungles of that country, and who yet speak lan- 

 guages of their own which have nothing in common 

 with the noble Sanscrit. Europe was inhabited by a 

 people of Tartar origin, who still exist as the Basques 

 of the Pyrenees, and as the Finns and Lapps of Scan- 

 dinavia. It is probable that these people also were 

 intruders of comparatively recent date, and that a yet 

 more primeval race existed on the gloomy banks of the 

 Danube and the Rhine, in huts built on stakes in the 

 shallow waters of the Swiss lakes, and in the mountain 

 caverns of France and Spain. The Arians, who 

 migrated into India, certainly intermarried with the 



