The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-28

truth tina written speech IL not always
the most trust worthy test Of kinship.
Stronger and more conclusive THAI the
yritten is the unwTittsn spseoh Thua The
lngYo risiicI o., thc RI mn puS,'. -
bnhcld IN its successor. the modern Italian.
~ n safer guide than the rounded sentences
Of Cicero or tho quip@ and iests Of the courtly
speech of Horace; just ~ one finds the true
English, the kin revealing English. in the
speech Of the people rather than in the
elaborate rhetoric OF Webster or the polished
verse of Miltoa.
u IN the veraacular. not the school speech,
which keeps beat the family likeness. The
simple tele o; folklore gives a safer clue
than the more ambitious drama, the jingles
OF Mother Goose more cogsnt testimony
than Paradise Lost" or Gibbons Decline
and Fall" Cited "a examples Of such cri-
terra of kinship are the so-called Arthuriau
legends Of the Celt and the diverse YER
sions OF the Teutopic Niebelungenlied. The
genesis OF Mother Goose can be traced in the
I old Aryan DAYS out on the highlands OF Asia
1000 years ago. When the fond English
speaking father tosses his child up into the
air and catches it IA il comes down, crying
to II. Uroda' he little thinks that the word il
literally Sauskrit upddo, to catch; and that
80 the old proto-Aryan fo%refathers forty
centuries ago must nave tossed and caught
their little ones 10 the same cry. Tn nur-
sery has bridged fhe chasm and kept intact
the record OF race kinship.
Attention il directed also to the proof Of
et hnical likeness or unlikeness in msntal
and spiritual types. Let us suppose. for
instance. that an able and educated Chinese
has written a book upon a topic OF inter-
national interest aud that the English OF
the ira nslation ia exact and faultless. To
read II. nevertheless. is TO enter into a men
tal and spiritual medium so unlike the Aryar
that ono almost rubs his eyes to zee II he
be not asleep. The book betrays a radica
difference in type between the Mongol and
! the Aryan minds. The whole vision is re-
ceived from a different mental and spiritua
point OF view A similar unlikeness. though
much less marked. is discernible betweer
different branches of the Aryan stock. A
French book * not an English book. moi
can any skill Of translation conceal the fact
Neither is a Japanese book a Chinese book
though il il n Mongol book. Homer is not
Milton, yet both are Aryan. Thus in trac'
ing race kinships mental and spiritual char
acteristics AFFORD clues Of considerable
/ though secondary value.
EthniCally characteristic also il the trend
to similar political instit utions. IL hai
been said that all Asia has never known q
republic. though the affirmation can scarcely
be made Of pre-Davidic Palestine or oI
pre-Mohammedan Arabia. II il not strictly
true either that all Asia is Mongol or Semitic
but although the primitive otto Aryar
homeland may have lain. As it !Oig has
been claimed, in Asia. il il certain that the
great mass of the Aryan peoples early left
il and the few who remained behind were
swallowed up in the teeming millions OF
! the Mongol and the Semitic and 80 failed
to develop an Aryan political life. Des.
potism is the only type OF government
which seems TO be normal TO the mind oil
the negroid. the Mongol and the Semitic
From this point OF view they are to-day
what they were 1000 years ago. Two Of
these families of peoples. the negroid and
the Semitic. have dwelt about the shores Of
the Mediterranean no less than have the
Aryans. but migrations and new climatic
surroundings worked no change in the type
of government except in the case OF Garth.
age. which was at one time. as the author
says, a narrow but at another q wide and
democratic form of oligarchy. II on the
other hand we follow the story OF the Aryar
races in their European homes. We find thai
slowly but surely-often with long back
sets. but always turning again to the effort
the Aryan peoples ave emerged from
the despotism Of the past. In the process
Of Aryan political evolution the sutocra'
has become the constitutional monarch
then he has sunk into a mere hgurehead,
then he has quietly disappeared. and III
timately government OF the people. for
The people and by the people has become
the law Of the land. Such political evolu'
| ton is one OF the birthmarks of the Aryar
peoples. and by it we are helped to trace
their kinship.