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Arian condition, diflfers so much in its soveral devdopnicnfs, nnd 

 there is ao great a break between the Indian and the Asonesian 

 forme, that we can only consider the Ariun aa one of the latest and 

 most partial of thn intrusive elements that have modifit^d the 

 Indian branch. Between the Australian conditioii and the proper 

 Dravirian, or that which immediately preceded the Arian, the 

 interval, whellier measured by physical, lingniBtic or mental and 

 indnstriU change, is very great, and its Indian history mnsst have 

 been complex. It probably began with negro tribes and prolo- 

 Scythic languages like th^" human bistoiies of Aiioncsia and 

 Africa, while its later eras were marked by the predominance of 

 advanced Scythic, Semitic and Semitico-Scythic race?, and by the 

 influence of Semitic and Scylhic languages. The great and archaic 

 Scythic movements that appear to have preceded the proper Se- 

 mitic in S, W. Asia, and are sodeejdy impressed on the Caucasian 

 and African languages, were felt in India also and through it in 

 Asonesia. The early Caucaso-Scmitic raoveraents which proceeded 

 the historical Semitic, and must have been associated with the civi- 

 lisations out of winch the Egypiiau, the Babylonian and the Phto- 

 nician grew*, have left their imprej^is on the Draviriaii languages 

 as well as on the Nilotic and "North African, and tlie partial 

 approximation of the Dravirian physical type to the Semitic, witli 

 the civili!*ation the Indian nations had attained prior to the Ariau 

 era, need not be sought in any remoter cause. There is no reason 

 to suppose that the influence of the Semitic race and civilisation 

 on the Dravirian has ever been wholly in feiTupted since it first 

 besian. Whnn the Ariansi broke throimh the connection which in 

 all probability previously existed by laml, it is not likely that the 

 maritime intercourse between the Semitic and the Dravirian ports 

 was interfered with. The Dravirian formation is so archaic that 

 not only all the great historical ethnic developments of S.W» Asia, 

 but the first rise of the Semitic power and civilisation, and all the 

 later movements and revolutions of this region, including the Indo* 

 European, must have taken place in its presence. Its history goe^ 

 hack beyond the beginning of the civilisirilion of the Euphrafei 

 and the Nile, and mnch that distinguishes the DraTirinne from the' 

 Australians may associate itscdf with the most archaic and as V'-t 



