, 1870-04-10

-, 80 esesA'1t W oos1A1anE them 70 b OF Mda1
4, Hcneo there can b no reasonable doubt
that the fair eleraeut Of the OoIkoxnaskins
Population OF theAs islantls 800 vo.ra 400 ~;
hlmply tie westarn ftingo OF that yssI stocI
which cAn 10 traced to Central Asia. and Al
ettsones o. Htuch on tho confines Of Chin. Il
= 1ncient ttroae is testified by Chinese snnalists.
Throughout ne ceatra1 pa1ts Of ths Immense -
a1ca which 1t coscru, tho people Of iii. stocS
speak Atyan languages -belcnctn1. tbat !. n
the same family II tie old pefsisn or Z-nd
and tho sans11L And they remain stilllsrcaiT
represented among the AYghans nd thSs
SAphoots on the tfonunra Of pessIa on
the one hand, and Hindostsn an the
othar. but The old sanslQit l.ar,.n1o
proves tbat the AIyan population Of L. I'M csno
IN from the northwest At least s, 900 ysa:s 500.
And in the Fedas these people portray q. M
selves IN characters which might hA1, dtted
tho Gsuls, the Germans, or the Gotha, IN
fortunately theIo is no evidence whether tbey
wero fai.-haired z OF not In India there vas
Ike the Australians than my one else md
speaking N group Of languages called Draw
idian. They were fenced in On The norfh ~
The barrier Of the Himal.yas, into the crrst
nver basins OF the Indus aud tho
~ tuhanses.; where her.. thry bare been, in
population, leaving as ovtdence Of their iumIs.
grafton an extensive modification Of he phys-
and a Hteratme. Italy Is to t5e aIn4 % %S,9 81
Hindoetan is to the Hinalayss. Tho fo f. its
Gauges. Four centuries D. c. it was people
manly b} the dark and abort stock rcpsesoatoJ
By LYugians, Etruscans and Of cd Itsl;sn.
The Gauls pour into it over ts,o Northwestern
pazsce, and settled in cis-Apinc daul, modify
Ing tho physical characters and the languages
Of the population. but being lost ercntuaiIy Ia
the great Roman nadoRAhtJ. Tha cor9e4poui-
enee Of the namea Of places in Gaul aud an
e,cnt Britain fully confirms CGaa-'s staten ,nt
thAt the Belgic Gauls h.d, At some compa.a-
lively recent Erns, colonized Southeastern
britain 10 great numbers. But the primitive
colonization Of Britain from the mainland by
dqrity. -1'
have now, believe, accounted 10, tho Y,ir
Celtic-tpeaGng population Of ancient Rritaiu.
There remains tho problem, Why dit Britain
eohsain aataT! sa9aer Geasspealdns population, Of
The iey to Ills i H4ddlo 4d is, I bclicve with d.
Thurman, Do Belloguet, and others. afforded
ty history and philoiogy. History, which tells
~ W the 1noutlho OF Casat, Strabo, md Tacitus,
that the A4uitaine, who lived beyond the
as1cnne, wars small and dark people Ike tho
Iberisns, Who spoke a language different from
that Of the Giu1. pt,lologJ, which tells III
that ibis language waa the Eaakari,u, is repre-
scented by the modern Basque, which Is unlike
every otlle1 European language, and wlIcl,
once covered vastly greater area than il now
oecupics-tho. Grca: majority Of The people
who once spoke it having acquired other Ian
s9ages
Thus, onee more, ph51ical and pathological
etAnology, Properly ysewed, concur. Thu
phyncaly distinct stock turns out to be In
gnistically distinct-to have, in fact, ali the
chronological characters Of diatinct raee.
In Spain And in the old Aaujtania tho Enska-
vi Ia 1trv
Of tho popu>ad adon which physically retains, tc
. Feat e1tent, its d X complexion and short
stature. In Britain he same process Of OF
tinction seems to laTo been couaumnatedt ~
3aI back rs the hmo OF TaGtus. For frou
what has been said it can hardly be doubted
that the SluEcs and the dark t{pe in eencr1
were the outliels Of the continental Eusknrixn
speaking dark typo, just - tho hitiah Bclgsr
and The fair type in general, were tho orahoote
Of the continental Celtio-spc&dng fair type
And Just as in Yeste1n and Middle Ganl, and
n Spain, the celtic-speakng fair people had
ereu In tho time Of CesaE, largely s1pplsnte<
and absorbed the dark stock; 20, in Mitsin, !.
so1bed it, snd that the dark stock hid givo1
up their Euskazian for the Celtic language.
M'these rcasonings may be thus put int
the form OF probable hypothesis. The chai:
Of tho Alps, the densly wooded highlands d
Central Europe known in old timea la the Her
c5nian forest, with The broad Rhine in its lowe,
course, form natural rampant betTecn The
vast central plaina Of E,rasia and Western AMI
Southern Europe Before England Tas poo
Piled By tho ancestors Of its present population
tho latter region, including tho north ehore Of
tha Mediterranean, Spain, Gaul, aud perh4p,
tho shores Of the Baltic, wezo occupied by poo
plo q the d.rk tyPo, who my y possiGllit,'
bronco age. These people occupied the 1,riiis1
islands wholly or in part, and were very proha
bly, at dsst their sole occupants. Andin Spain
Franco and Britain they spoke Euskarian di4
| lects-
| languages. wondered oser the great Eurasiati'
plain TO the east rampant, from Poland to til
| frontiers Of CHM, aud from Siberia to those o
| petsiA and India. but At length tho fair peo.
| pie found their v1st plnin too narrow or tL
| Injuries beyond it's natural barriers TOO tempt
ing and they began 70 overAow-aa "celta,
sat1 aaa Tssis Tea;e ss1p En5epe' a:a = Fed fssa
and into undostAn. The cc1hc-epcaking fai
| people, passing into Gatl, partly exti1pstot
ard partly mixed with the pre-eIfsting la1l
Euslarann-speaking population, imposing thei
language and habits on AL the northern, mid
de, and eastern parts Of Gsul, md e1tenA;n;
widely into Spain: From Gaul they passed in
| p!etely; 90 that, though much Of tho oil
blood Of the dark etock remained, its language
vanished.
The Teutonic.sreaking people ye=c eirnpl;
s.aother wave Of tho sanae great ArEan occal
Of Central Eurasia. They treated the Celtit
I speakers exactly aa tho latter hal treated III.
dark etocl1, and before another century hA
passed the Celtic language viii probably te q
1nuch thing OF the past in these tslands .
the Euskari1n IT,
II this is fair picture Of tho general coure
| Of events, it furnishes tho explanation OF tk
! fact from which we started, namely, tho pres
cnce in the British Islands Of two distiac
1 clinical elemcnts-a fair and dark.