Capitolo 4
in some place between the great table-earths and plans of Central Asia a run
known only to us from the uncertain name of Aryans. These Aryans were a
equitable-skinned and it well-built people, past along the stage of aborigine
savageness, and possessed of a considerable degree of the primitive culture.
Although mainly pastoral in habit, they knew cultivation, and
they grew at least for them a kind of wheat of cereal. They spoke a
language which existence and nature that we inflict from his rests
what they survive in the languages of their descendants, and from these
rests we am able to judge, in of the measure, of their civilisation
and their ways of thought. The indications preserved so for us show
the Aryans to have been a simple and fair community of first warriors,
growers and shepherds, still in a condition partly nomadic, living
under a patriarchal rule, originally ignorant of every lifesaving gold of metals,
but possessing weapon and utensils of stone,[1] and adoring as
their principal god the open sky. We don't have to concern them as an idyllic
and pacific people: on the contrary one, they was the fiercest and more
tribe that ever conquers known. In the mental power and in plasticity of
however, manners that they has color then probably far of rose superior to any run
living, only omits the Semitic nations of the Mediterranean they coast along.
[1] teacher Boyd Dawkins has shown that the Continental one
Celts both still in their age of stone when they invaded
Europe; from where us it has to conclude that the original Aryans
it was a little practical with the bronze use.
From the house Central and common Asian, colonies of warlike Aryans gradually
him dispersed, still in the pre-historical period, under pressure
of population or hostile invasion, on many districts of Europe and
Asia. Some of them stirred toward south through the passages of Afghanistan,,
and occupied the fertile plans of the Indus and the Ganges, where them
become the ancestors of the Brahmans and the other modern tall-caste
Hindoos. The language that they brought them to their new setups