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The Kelt or Gael. 9
included in the Aryan, or first group. This
leaves us face to face with the Hindoo, the
Persian, the Greek, the Latin, the Kelt, the
German, and the Slav. According to the
expounders of the Mosaic cosmogony, not only
the members of this group, but the members of
the nine other groups, sprung directly from Shem,
Ham, and Japhet, the sons of Noah, and indirectly
from Adam and Eve. This of course rendered
the doctrine of migration a necessary part of the Doctrine of
1 1 1 • /- 11 • • J migration.
theory, and the existence of all nations is accounted
for by showing that they wandered away from
Central Asia after the Flood, and carried the
consequences of the Tower of Babel with them
into Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia, and else-
where ; and that climate and lapse of time
produced the racial differences. As a corollary
to this ethnology, the terms Semitic, Hametic,
and Japhetic have been used even in the present
generation to account for and include all variations
in human speech. That form of ethnology and
of philology is no longer received by students ;
but it has left behind it in science the doctrine of
a racial ancestor, and of the migration of races.
A good deal has been said recently about the
primitive Aryan man ; but I doubt his existence.
If we seek him, we must seek the primitive Semite,
the primitive Turanian, and so on through all the
groups. I do not think, and it certainly has never
been shown, that the connection between the
group of languages classed as Aryan involves the