New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1919-02-15

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Asia. the Aryas or Hindus Of India,
sthe Persians and the ArmeIfians, the
last two being often termed Iranians
@from the great plateaus of Iran where
81 hey had their origin; in Europe, the
8RC creeks, Latins, Celts, Teutons or Ger
Anlans, and Slavs.
Common usage treats these groups
#sas races, so properly we speak OF the
Celtic race or the Clavic race or or
the races of Europe. Because or the
#intimate relations of the Greeks ana
IN 4atins and the Cognate nearness OF
IN heir languages, the two are denoted
has of the Greco Latin race. German
and Teuton are interchangeaole' oe-
ing synonym Gus terms.
'"The great majority of the peoples
sS who have invaded Europe and whose
~ descendants are now settled there be-
h ong to the Indo- European family.
ATn addition, about 80, 100000 persons,
or one-fifteenth of the inhabitants or
Europe are Finno-Ugrians and Turks,
rn embers of the Ural-Altaic branch
of the Mongolian family. All the
rest, except the Jews, Maltese and
Saracens (Syro-Arab) and possibly
Aexcept the Basques are of lndo-
& European stock.
81 ''IJral-Altaian comprehends peoples
#aSSfound between the AlC1l t'-lu - o.
sy n curtains. F'inno-Ugrian is specific
of a western group of Ural-Altalans:
The term is derived from Finn and
8 Ugra, the region on both sldes OF lhe
Urals.
.'Thc various routes of migration
into Europe, the later wanderings of
the immigrants, and their constant
Irelocations, may be directly traced to
@googra causes of which the noun
tain system, the rivers and plains
had a determinative part. The back
bone and dominant factor of the con-
#tinent is the Alps.
TN the Alps are the fountain heads
of tho Rhone, Rhine and Pc, and IL
. the outspurs rise the Loire, Seine,
Mouse Elbe, Oder, Vistula and Dan
ube These rivers have each limited
or determined the wanderi1gs of peo-
Piles, the march of armies, and the
II boundaries Of states. The Danube
was u natural and inevitable west
ward roadway of pastoral peoples
from Asia.
"a line drawn from the mouth Of
the Pruth to the mouth of the Me
81 men, and thence prolonged through
M the Baltic and Gulf of Bothnia to the
81 sources of the Torne Elf in Scaldina-
81 via gives an approximation Of real or
~
81 and extent. West of that line AID
north of the Alpine system, an enor-
NOUS plain, broken only by the wa
Gersheds of its rivers, extends to the
4 North sea.
when the Christian era began all
i tha. plain was covered by forests ex-
! cept the marshlands in the east, That
& plain, as we'll as Scandinavia, peopled
! almost wholly by Teutons, was some
4 times called Germania. East of that
j line was another still more enormous
] plain, Sarmatia, the home of the
Elavs a race almost unknown. The
Alps, northern Italy, a part of Spain,
France and the British Islands were
inhabited by Celts. The centers of
the Greco-Latins were Greece and
Italy.
''Thus, at the time of Christ the
Alps are the signpost of Europe,
roughly pointing out where the races
are to be found north of the Alps,
the Teutons; south of the Alps, the
Greco-Latins; in the Alps and to the
west the Celts; far east of the Alps
little influence in 1t, the Slavs and
little influenced by Europe and of as
little influence in it, the Slavs and
the FfnnoUgrians"