362 NATURAL HXSTOBf OF 



has been vouchsafed the glory and the conditions of revela- 

 tion. 



The Caucasian type alone continues in rapid developiwent, 

 covering with nations every congenial latitude, and portending, 

 at no distant era, to bear rule in every region, if not by physi- 

 cal superiority, at least by that dominion which religion, 

 science, and enterprise confer. Constituting, as we here show, 

 the most important, the most elevated, and highly organized 

 type of Man, it becomes interesting to search out the original 

 seat where geographical as well as historical and legendary 

 evidence attest it was cradled, and whence, under the con- 

 ditions of existence which now surround it, fair induction 

 shows the great races of this stock commenced to radiate in all 

 directions. 



Egyptian antiquity, when not claiming priority of social 

 existence for itself, often pointed to the regions of Habesh, or 

 high African Ethiopia, and sometimes to the north, for the seat 

 of gods and demigods, because both were the intermediate 

 stations of the progenitor tribes. The Hellenic nations, when 

 they searched for their own aboriginal source, a part of their 

 ignorant vanity, sought them in the farthest north, beyond the 

 dominions of Thrace, and knew of moral Lactophagi, of gods 

 and sages, among the Hyperboreans, which could be no nearer 

 than the Borysthenes or Dnieper. Ionia and Western Asia 

 claimed those sources of nationality for the high lands beyond 

 the Euphrates, or for Armenia, where the language was partly 

 Finnic, and further north-east on the Oxus, where the forms 

 of speech were still more Hyperborean. Even Delos had three 

 priestesses, natives of the distant north ; and Olen, a high 

 priest, whose name is so thoroughly Finnic as to be still com- 

 mon in Scandinavia. But modern research, without rejecting 

 these facts, has shown that they lead, always, to regions still 

 further east, Hindu-Koosh, Cabul, and the Suleimanic range, 

 high lands, probably designated, in a general form, by the 

 Sanscrit name of Ariavartha, — the high, the holy land of the 



