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waves of population starting from a common centre and being 

 arrested only by an uncrossable ocean. History and Philology 

 together have related to us how Roman and Teuton followed Kelt 

 until the broad Atlantic stayed their occidental march. A Semitic 

 population pursued the sons of Tfam bearing the ancestral curse 

 of bei vitude into the uttermost recesses of the dark continent. It 

 is left on record, both in parchment and in temple ruin,-,, how the 

 Ikuldhists wen; dri\on out of India in the seventh century of our 

 era and had they not found congenial soil in Java they might 

 liave continued their southward course and left their mark on 



continent is an indicntion pci'hajjs of tlie track of the iine of least 



at the cliannel along ^\hich might ha\-e Mowed former streams of 



pressure from tlic north. If Duddhi.sm were found in Australia, 

 tlie route by which it came woukl be easily determined, but resting 

 wlieie it did, its course indicates the line which would unite two 



