II 



THt KTHNOLOOY Of THE INDIAN AHCmrELAQO. 



bvthe races in which the barbaric element remains prominent, or 

 did to bto the historic time, have strong resem bianco, sufficient of 

 themselves to suggest the belief that there wag a considerable 

 sameness in the intellectual development with which they originated. 

 They connect themselves on one side with the Burmese and Egyp- 

 tian and on the other with the Iranian, the latter being in fact 

 the Turanian linguistic type somewhat changed by a higher menial 

 energy 'and ait. They arc all primarily dissyllabic, strongly in- 

 tonated and harmonic, mostly vocalic,* possess much phonetic 

 fluency, euphonic mutability, attraction, and reflection, are ideolo- 

 gically crude, and express abstract relations by prefixes, infixes, 

 postfixes and by phonetic unions uui ohatifffs. 



The conclusion I would draw from the evidence of moral 

 character and customs, that this development of mankind was of vast 

 extent and long duration, is thus confirmed by an examination of 

 languages. The more advanced material civilisations of the Nile 

 and the Hoan^ho appear as partially secluded ethnic spots on 

 the dobe, which every where else presents this general uniformity 

 in all its hirfhrr nntional developments. t At a late period we se* the 

 superior organism and intellectual energy of a few trihes breaking 

 through the level of this fixed barbarism* Those tribes were bv 

 no mean* offsets from the more ancient civilisations of Kgvpt ana* 

 China. They were genuine members of this second and nitherto 

 most extended of all human developments. The Iranian family, 

 as thev spread over the region of the barbaric culture, must, as we 

 said, have destroyed gre.it numbers of tribes and languages, 



the totolfeet of the Chinese exhibit evidences of having ever undmnme any con- 

 rideraMe change after th» reception of rhr earliest utilitarian bent. Both din- 

 ptoy a total want of imagination, the anurce of all intellectual revolution and 

 ♦Oration, That attain* of the muid which toy* the foundation of tin limratotir 

 foebpnsata and a certain progress, must notlw ideuHfic^ with the artistic and 

 Jdoitfflc nviliMUoa to whton H muy evnitnaily lead. The.orfrsnic and payebo- 

 togto steffl which indue** aw! preserve* the linguistic one, nm not tor llSiSsXh 

 of years display Itself to art, adetuie or otiy other elaborate esdtn^ but it will 

 do so whenever favourable circumstances arit^ because the capacity ah™-,-;* ,ii*ts 

 In this at m moat thfnp it to with trito* a* with tadlvidu»ia,Tl»W-la»wiss« 

 rno. Hitrr hnvmg «.- M iij< ed their uremic and Intellectual expansion tnitrbt still 

 STa,"?^ i? ,5" WUaW t™^™ ^ &e ancient Teutonic ESi o^twof 

 the Stoh PoJi of tlx preset day , if drrunutauct* had not aided the native aaartv 

 -J^yfcllS 9 * ^P 01 ^* i0 pupuhithm and power. For the high* as 

 well at the lowed organtoms or* tub** to the great tow n f haWt and fixation. It 

 roust alw borne in irnnd, m connection with ihu itihjwr, that advanced 

 language* which i rould only lave originated in higto<r nnranbuu., nuwbecom- 

 muntcated to tribes of a lower devdounieut without thereby improv^oV altiw 

 Uwnu So moat d^verhs and mventlon* an-, simple i M all intni*-:* v, h*t: n „re 

 aearty snnoanred, althauiyh only a few mind* could tone originated them. When 

 " tui BitaWh^um md SSS *tt*sWf*« 



Asiatic nations we shall enter «*t torg* \»tt> this important «wW wtoch it only 

 little undewnuid b*^u*e it baa been lit! le attended to * 



t V v iia^c n.,t y«t wfflctont evidaww to eaoaut the Enphralos, AUhoneh China 

 and Egypt were protected by their position, 3eir influ«n« on other tSSmS 

 have been considerable and they were doubttoM always expowd t • attack*. 



