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Italians, the Persians and Hindoos, were living together 
beneath the same roof.” “Many words/’ says he, “still live 
in India and in England that have witnessed the first separa- 
tion of the northern and southern Aryans, and these are 
witnesses not to be shaken by any cross-examination. The 
terms for ‘ God/ for ‘ house/ for ‘ father/ ‘ mother/ c son/ 
‘daughter/ for ‘dog' and ‘cow/ for ‘ heart ' and ‘tears/ 
for ‘axe* and ‘tree/ identical in all the Indo-European 
idioms, are like the watchwords of soldiers. We challenge 
the seeming stranger, and whether he answer with the lips of 
a Greek, a German, or an Indian, we recognise him as one of 
ourselves, and there is not an English jury nowadays which, 
after examining the hoary documents of language, would 
reject the claim of a common descent and a spiritual relation- 
ship between Hindoo, Greek, and Teuton.” Bunsen has 
shown the Asiatic origin of all the North- American Indians, 
and of Africa Latham has said : “ That the uniformity of 
languages throughout Africa is greater than it is either in 
Asia or in Europe, 1 have not the slightest hesitation in com- 
mitting myself.” For these philological arguments each day 
additional evidence is found, not merely by the correlation of 
words, but in the grammatical structure, — the bones and 
sinews which retain their shape and signification with such 
marvellous persistency. The closest and most distinct 
affinities have been discovered between the languages of the 
South Indian Tamil country and the languages of the Finns 
and Lapps of Northern Europe and the Agrians of Liberia. 
“ Thus,” says Dr. Caldwell, “ the pre- Aryan inhabitants of 
the Deccan have been proved by their language alone, in the 
silence of history, in the absence of all ordinary probabilities, 
to be allied to the tribes that appear to have overspread 
Europe before the arrival of the Goths and of the Pelasgi, 
and even before the arrival of the Celts.” Well may he add, 
“ What a confirmation of the statement that ‘ God hath made 
of one blood all nations of men to dwell upon the face of 
the whole earth ' ! ” Surely, brethren, we may not only 
with confidence rightly divide the Word of Truth concerning 
the common origin of man, but with thankfulness for the 
researches of those who, from a scientific point of view alone, 
have arrived at the conclusion that in the beginning men were 
of one language and of one speech, and that of one family of 
man the whole earth was overspread. 
2. The Modern Origin of Man. — Here, be it observed, the 
question before us is the origin of man, not that of the earth. 
That enormous periods have elapsed since the earth's founda- 
tions first were laid I cannot but regard as for ever settled. 
