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lo The Kelt or Gael.
springing of all the speakers of those groups from
a common ancestor. I think the more probable
hypothesis, and the one most in conformity with
the doctrine of evolution is, that human life was
not confined to any particular land or country, but
originated wherever the conditions were favourable
for it, and that individuals coalesced into groups,
and groups communicated with each other from
motives of convenience, and principally for pur-
poses of protection. It must be fully understood
that this is only a guess, and is not intended to
influence any one who is investigating the facts
for himself.
Competing This doctrine of a primitive Aryan ancestor
furting'^-point/^^'-^ the doctrine of migration is advanced by
two competing groups of writers, under various
forms.
Professor Max Milller and his school suwest
that Northern India was the home of the primi-
tive Aryan, that his descendants proceeded to
the West, giving off the Persian, the Greek, the
Latin, the Kelt, the German, and the Slav in
the process.
Professor Schriider and Dr Penka in Germany,
and Professor Sayce in England, suggest that
the Aryan was a native of some cold part of
Western Europe — Southern Scandinavia seems
the latest favourite loctis in quo — and started for
the East, entering India at a comparatively
recent period, having previously sent off southern
offshoots to father the Kelt, the Latin, and the