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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology
Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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common by the differentAryan folk who used them. The plow,the rake, and the hoe, the iron ax andsickle, and many other of the imple- THE INDICANS.—HOUSE PEOPLE OP ARYA. 653 merits of husbandry were manifestly inuse by the immigrants who peopledancient India. But here again we finda different result when we look at thenames of the implements of the chaseand of war. The name of the bow andarrow, the spear, the lance, and thesword are different in the different dia-lects which sprang from the commonsource; and we are able by such meansto discover that hunting and the still at eventide. It is unmistakably truethat the leading features of the primitiveAryan home of India had an outline ofidentity with those of Greece and Italy,and even of the Teutonic fastnesses ofthe north and the oak woods of Britain.Unto this day many words still live inIndia and in England that had a commonbirth and common meaning before theseparation of the ancient tribes from theBactrian homestead, and these words
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HOUSE PEOPLE OF ARYA—THE AGRICULTURAL LIFE. more exciting vocations of war werephases of life comparatively unknown tothe primitive Aryans, and only super-imposed upon their ancient agriculturallife at a later date and under foreigninfluences. War and the chase were not the nativepursuits of these peaceable people ; andindications of a the very nomenclature ofSeesaSerace their household and gardencharacter. utensils is sufficient of it- self to establish their character as menof the field by day and the hearthstone and forms of speech bear unmistakableevidence of the common primitive lifewhich all these tribes inherited from acommon ancestry. The name for houseis the same in all. So also the namesfor father and mother, for son anddaughter, for dog and cow, for heart andtears, for ax and tree, for plow anddoorway—all are common in their originand meaning in the whole group ofIndo-European languages. And thusare we able, by linguistic research andcareful comparison, to draw from the

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