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the subsequent progress of nations, and we can read 

 there, in chapter after chapter, of the invasions 

 which followed. In our day, all those nations are 

 found to have intermingled. The characteristics of 

 the original stocks, as exhibited in the peoples now 

 existing, sometimes appear in a crossing of different 

 types, sometimes in a juxtaposition. From the 

 mixture of all, brought together by war and fused 

 by the experiences of peace, the European societies 

 have been reconstructed and formed, as we know 

 them in history, past and present. 



87. Similar to this progressive colonization of the 

 Aryans must have been that of the whole human 

 family. Leaving their original centre of creation, 

 the primitive colonists, ancestors of all 

 existing races, marched on by slow stages JKb^J 

 to the conquest of an uninhabited world. 

 They accustomed themselves to the divers condi- 

 tions of existence imposed upon them by the North, 

 the South, the East, the West, by cold and heat, 

 mountain and plain. Though many pioneers must 

 have succumbed on the way, yet some survived the 

 hardships of every stage. No matter how hard the 

 conditions of natural environment were, there was 

 always one reassuring feature in the case. It was 

 that the most exposed ranks of the advancing lines 

 had only nature to face after all; and nature, though 

 at times something of a step-mother to the family 

 which she owns upon earth, is ever still a mother. 

 But thpsQ that followed, in the vanguard of subsq- 



