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The Kelt or Gael. 1 1
Greek. The theory of a recent entry into India
appears to meto beinconsistent with the long history
of Sanscrit and of Zend. Neither school has as
yet, I believe, convinced the other; the arguments
in support of either view appear to me to be
insufficient ; and the doctrine of a special origina-
tion with migrations to be a survival from the
Mosaic ethnology.
The one result on which I think I may say what Aryan
that all philologists are so far agreed is, that there '
is a group of languages called, simply as a matter
of convenience, Aryan, because those 'languages
have the vocabulary of a very primitive society
in common ; that two of those languages —
Persian and Sanscrit — with their dialectical
varieties are confined to Asia, and that three
of those languages, and possibly five, viz., Keltic,
German, Slav — and Latin and Greek, if the two
latter are not Keltic dialects — are confined to
Europe.
The only other question that arises on the is there an
. ...... „ 1 , . Aryan race?
Aryan division is, Are all the persons speaking
any language of the Aryan group of the same
race? Are Hindoos, Parsees, Kelts, Germans,
Slavs, of the same race ? The difficulty in answer-
ing the question is that ethnologists have not yet
agreed on a definition of the word " race;" it is still
a popular and not a scientific expression. Groups
of men corresponding within reasonable limits
in size, form, and colour, are said to belong to
the same race. Then the race may have many