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I his brethren to return for
( their father and bring him up into
Egypt, and long before Moses after
ward led them out from under Egypt
! ian bondage, humanity was unceasing-
! " on the move.
After Babel and its confusion Of
! tongues and the dispersion of human
| ity, we get our next picture Of human
/ wanderings from the Bible story when
/ Terah took Abram and Lot and their
/ wives and went forth from Ur OF the
| Chaldes to go into the land of Canaan.
1 They got as far as Haran and Abrams
/ father, Terah, died there. Then came
| the message to Abram to get thee out
! of thy country, and from thy kindred,
( and from thy fathers house, unto a
! land that 1 will show thee" From this
( land they Travelled into Egypt and out
| again, and finally the possessions Of
they could no longer get along to-
gether. So Abram said to Lot that
| they would separate and he would give
him first choice of the directions they
could go. And Lot chose the plain Of
Jordan. while Abram chose Canaan
Wanderings of the Shepherds.
And so the history Of early Israel is
full of the wanderings of the shop
/ herd patriarchs, their households. their
herds, and their Docks. Called for
ward by green fields and pleasant wa
tering places; lured on by the thirst
for the peaceful cOnqueSts of unOccu-
pied lands, and the martial conquest Of
alien peoples, they marched here ami
there, both before and after the exodus
from Egypt The Israelites were a
restless people, and their constant
seeking of new lands to possess and
new opportunities to improve in those
days was perhaps no more remarkable
than the spirit of the Jew today who
is willing to pay the price in the coin
of suffering and isolation for getting
on IN the world, and for bllShing
home and a competence for his chill
dren and those who come after them.
He willingly wanders through the des-
erts of difficulty and prejudice if he
can see before him the promised land
of golden opportunities. And that is
why he is the most widely dispersed
and yet the most strictly isolated Of
all races of humanity.
Yellow Race, First Inhabitants.
We do not know when man first be-
gan his career on the earth. We only
know that vast geologic ages ago, both
the climate and the outline of Europe
were very different from what they ire
today, and that man lived there with
animals long since extinct.
According to the most authentic in
formation gathered by the enthnOlO-
giSts, the earliest inhabitants Of
Europe were of the yellow race, which
broadly speaking, not only includes -he
Chinese and Japanese, but the Slavic
peoples as we'll They were also the
first inha bitants of the New World
In Europe today live two small peO-
pies who escaped the common fate Of
an overwhelming avalanche of civiIi-
zatlon that swept UP behind them-tne
Basques, sheltered by the Pyreuees,
and the Films and Laps, of the far
north The polished stone implements
found in the caves and river graveIs
of western Europe, the kitchen mid
dens upon the shores of the Baltic, the
T~T~ l. = go
burial mounds all over Europe con-
firm the belief that close kinsmen OF
the chinese were the first people Of !
Europe. What happened in prehistoric
times in the migratiOns of humanity
into Europe has been witnessed in the :
coming of the Hungarians and, the |
Turks into Europe.
Scattered Aryan Race.
Although the Aryan race is undoubt-
eddy the youngest of the great classes |
of humanity, it is, collectively, the |
most scattered. It includes the ancient 1
Hindu, and the modern Englishmau; /
the ancient Roman and the modern /
Italian; the ancient Athenian and the /
modern Greek. Its descendants have |
Peopled the New World, Europe and !
Australia.
The original seat of the Aryan race
seems to have been in the Hindu !
Kush mountain region of northwest |
ern Asia I nthe less than 5000 years
that have passed since the first pill /
grims started out of those mountain /
valleys to conquer the world as they
progressed, they have wandered all /
over the earth. Some tribes spread !
over the tablelands of Iran and the /
plains Of India, and because the pro-
genitOTs of the Modes. the Persians
and the Hindus. The tribes which en-
tered Europe probably went there by
way Of the HellespOnt, pushing them
selves down into the peninsulas and
founding the Greek and Roman states
The vanguard of the tribes which
swept across the middle Europe from
Asia, to the west were the Celts After
them came the Teutonic tribes, and the.
hard crowded Celts were forced out I
upon the Westernmosr edge Of Europe, ]
into Gaul and Spain, and across the
channel to the British Isles, where /
they are represented to this day by
the Welsh, the Irish and the Highland
Slavs. and they pressed up against the
TeutOns as hard as the Teutons IN
their first days had pressed against
the Celts.
From the time when the first ven
turesome tribes began to wander west
ward from the Aryan cradle home until
now, the wanderlust has possessed the |
Aryan people, and perhaps for 1000 or
5000 years they have been moving for
ward and westward, and the great mi
grafton to America is but the contin-
uing flow Of the stream that began so
many years ago.
History of Immigration.
We find the history of this ATyan
migration written in the earliest books
Of the race. The Rig-Veda, the most
ancient OF books, is made up chiefly
Of hymns, which were composed by the
sweet singers Of the Aryan clans
which, during a thousand years.
steadily forward through the
dimalayas and across the indian pen
lnSula to the Ganges. These hymns are /
ilIIed with the memories of the long !
conflict Of the fair faced AryanS and !
the dark visaged abOringines. They
tell of the terrors Of the mountain /
passes, speaking often of the great |
dark mountains through whose gloomy
3cfile5 the early immigrants to India
wendell their way.
Inc people of eastern Asia seem to
be the only great exception to the 1
poetic statement that westward the
course Of empire takes its way China |
was first settled by a band of Turanlan I
emigrants who headed toward the ris- ]
ng instead of toward the setting sun. I
and settled in the basin of the Yellow
river, there to become the progenitors
II the most pOpulOUs nation human his
tory has ever known. They found
4borigines there just as Columbus !
found them in America and as the ]
Afyans found them in India whence
hey came is beyond mortal ken His
-ory stands silent and dumb, so re- {
note were the days of their advent.
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