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Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 154.
Rev. Stopford A. Brooke,
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Professor Max Müller, 474.
William Morris, M.A., 552.
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We have many reasons for feeling a special interest in the Aryans. When we look for the traditional cradle of our race, a star overhangs the Orient. Our language finds its roots in a spreading centre which is ascribed to the regions lying south of the great river Oxus, and between Euphrates on the west and Indus on the east. As members of the Indo-Germanic family, we own sonship to the Friesic tribes, who filled the wild fringes of Northern Europe, and made our AngloSaxondom by westward invasion, as no doubt they had made their own domain of Friez and Teutonland by incursion from their ancestral east.

This Aryan expansion it would be prudent to style the beginning of a semi-historical period rather than the first colonisation of a world. When the noble nomads wandering eastward reached India (Arya in Sanscrit signifies noble) they found rude darker races to subjugate. Somewhat degenerated from their ancient superiority, these conquerors themselves are now ruled by another and stronger shoot of the Aryan branch which extended itself westward, and, notwithstanding many a fusion, lives still in England with distinction and unexhausted vitality.

The view we have expressed of the primeval Aryans as the dominant race of an early period will allow of room for the questions whether Egypt is not older still than Aryana, and whether the differences between the so-called Semitic languages of the Phoenician and Hebrew peoples and those of the so-called Indo-Germanic group are not differences due to variation rather than to absence of fellowship in origin. The hieroglyph and the oldest cuneiform have not yet been fully explored and compared with other ancient alphabets.

A clue which will fairly exemplify the ramifications of the Aryan brotherhood may be found in our word "wit," or "wot." This same word is to be traced with slight variation through the Gothic, the Anglo-Saxon, the old Norman, the German. In the Greek it is edu or olda, preceded by the obsolete letter vau. In Latin it is video. In Sanscrit it appears as vid and in the well-known Veda, making by a variation also bodhi and budha, both signifying deep knowledge. Perhaps it is the Assyrian idu, to know, or to oversee. In Zend it is the A-vista (vid), the book of knowledge.

To return to Anglo-Saxon again, the same word forms the name of