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unrestrained alliances with the real Egyptian people, as well 

 as with Canaanites during the administration of the Judges; 

 and at a later period with Babylonians, Greeks and Romans. 



A mcst ancient assimilation of the Hebrew people, if not an 

 actual origin among tribes located near the Gomerian source, 

 is indicated by the exiled tribes having shown a greater ten- 

 dency to mix and assimilate with the Finnic Scythians on the 

 north than with the Arabs on the south ; notwithstanding that 

 their language was more positively allied to it than to the 

 Celtic or any Finnic dialect. In the north alone, the ancient 

 Israelite race found honor and power, as was proved by the 

 military energy they displayed against the Persians, noticed in 

 an earlier part of this volume, and again in their connection 

 with and titular dignity among the Khazars ; it is even now 

 shown in the respect bestowed upon the Karaite Jews of the 

 Crimea. These views are strengthened by the beautiful spher- 

 ical cranium of the Jews, as fine as the Arabian or Circassian ; 

 by their profiles still predominantly aquiline ; by the frequent 

 recurrence of gray eyes, xanthous hair; and by a sturdy struc- 

 ture, less Arabian than Celtic, yet on the whole retaining an 

 Asiatic and peculiar aspect seldom adorned with beauty. 



All the foregoing conditions taken together tend to show 

 that the Hebrew race and language were not paternally of a 

 Semitic origin, but that both resulted from the region where the 

 first family came to settle among strangers; and the mixed 

 alliances, in the earlier period of the tribal history, contracted 

 with Egyptians, Canaanites, Arabs, Babylonians, and even 

 Phoenicians, affected it, till in the end they adopted Greek and 

 Roman names. The males of a race cannot alone maintain its 

 purity, and where polygamy exists, the other sex must neces- 

 sarily change it almost entirely. 



In China, Cochin-China, and Malabar, Jews now exist in 



families, according to the most trustworthy account, ever since 



they were expelled Persia, in the year of Christ 508. There 



are in the last-named region black Jews, probably a mixed race 



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