Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Taylor Isaac
Title : The origin of the aryans
Year : 1890

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Preface. This series is intended to present in popular form an account of the progress of Contemporary Science, especially in those departments where our knowledge has recently been enlarged, either by the accumulation of fresh facts, or where new theories have taken the place of others hitherto accepted. This has been notably the case with the subject of the present volume. The last ten years have seen a revolution in the opinion of scholars as to the region in which the Aryan race originated, and theories which not long ago were universally accepted as the well-established conclusions of science now hardly find a defender. In Germany several works have been devoted exclusively to the subject, but no English book has yet appeared giving an account of the state of the controversy, and embodying the results recently arrived at by philologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists. ...