THK ETHN0L001T OF THE INDIAN ARCIIIFELAOQ. 4J 



in thru' influence than the civilisations properly so called. The 

 latter are incommunicable to tribes at a great distance below their 

 possessors. 



We may select, as a great western type of this archaic develop* 

 merit, thai of the Nile, which was apparently the same as that of 

 Africa generally j* as a central one, that of India; and as an eastern 

 one, that of Aaianesia. Populous nations in Egypt and India 

 produced higher developments of this barbaric civilisation, if we 

 may so call it. The Himyaritic nation of Southern Arabia or 

 Saba, with its sun worship, human sacrifices, fetishes, ferocious 

 wars, vindictiveness, grossness of the sexual relations, infanticide 

 &c, appears to have come into existence while this ancient civilisa- 

 tion still predominated, and to have participated in much of its 

 character, as was to have been expected from its proximity to the 

 basin of the Nile and intimate commercial intercourse with its 

 inhabitants, Saba presents itself as reflecting much of 'be civilisation 

 both of Egypt and Phoenicia. Irs great antiquity is vouched by 

 its being mentioned in the enumeration of theancient patriarchs (u e. 

 tribes) in Genesis, and its constant association with Cush indicates 

 a connection of an intimate kind with the Ethiopians. With 

 the recoil of cultured intellect? from the brutality of the earlier 

 civilisation, and the necessity of maintaining itself above thecormpt- 

 injr, influence of the gross animalism of the surrounding tribes by 

 strong prohibitions and demarcations, Hebraism, Brahmatiism, and 

 Budhism are connected. The religion of interdictions aud excJn* 

 sivism, and the later reactions against it of the levelling nrinciple in- 

 herent in ethnic development,:— which always ultimately re-asserts 

 itself when most departed from, — pervaded India, Ultraindia, 

 and a portion of the eastern islands. But Africa and much of the 

 insular region have until now retained the ancient barbarous 

 maimers^ In other parts of the world we trace the same great 

 archaic development in proportion as we find the Hebraic, Budhistic, 

 Brabmauic, and Chinese civilisations wanting or imperfectly dif- 

 fused. Thus in the ancient Iranian races of Europe, such as the 

 Celts, and in several of the more advanced tribes in middle and 

 northern Asia and in America, we recognize the same barbarous 

 character and many of the same specific customs. It appears to 

 be hardly doubtful that all the shores of the Indian Ocean were 

 surrounded by races in this stage before the seeds of a higher 



• Vide post TV archaic en of the Nile cannot be placed Sower than 7000 B.C. 

 t Whether that culture be natural or ■uprmatntml. 



j It Is In vain that man ittoupU to place baniem around nation* end cIqjmct. 

 Tim great ethnic power* sexual and intellectual, which always break through 

 them, will ultimately fa*hloii the human family in accordance with the design of 

 God when he firft ftxed theae power* in the human orgnnkm. 



& None of the great region* are without abundant remnant* of this tneknt 

 athnoloor preaerring their primitive character Intact, *uh«U<ing a* heresie* 

 SSnL Kirfac* of & Inter milieatJon, or blended with it to many form* and 

 degree*. In India the mixture and eo-cxiitence of the two development* can be 

 be»t ttudied. 



