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 .. . ng. Theroot AR meansto plow, and thissignification istraceable innearly every dia-lect of Aryanspeech. In Latinar-Sive was toplow. In Greek ar-onn had „ Meaning and ap«Even plication of the in Old English we have the same meaning,in Old English wthe expression to car the ground, mean- THE INDICANS.—HOUSE PEOPLE OF ARYA, 651 ing to plow. In the forty-fifth chapterof Genesis occurs the expression, Thereshall neither
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 .. . ng. Theroot AR meansto plow, and thissignification istraceable innearly every dia-lect of Aryanspeech. In Latinar-Sive was toplow. In Greek ar-onn had „ Meaning and ap«Even plication of the in Old English we have the same meaning,in Old English wthe expression to car the ground, mean- THE INDICANS.—HOUSE PEOPLE OF ARYA, 651 ing to plow. In the forty-fifth chapterof Genesis occurs the expression, Thereshall neither be earing nor signifies, There shall be neitherf>Io:ci)ig nor harvest time. Ancientgeographical names in all parts of theAryan world have preserved the tracesof this word. The old name of Thracewas Ar-ia. The ancient name of the vocation of the Aryan race. The namesof men in various parts of the worldhave carried forward the same nobletradition; and that great German leaderwith whom Julius Caesar contended forthe mastery of Europe was called Ar-iovistus. All these facts prove beyonddoubt that the vocation of this greatbranch of the human family was agri-. HOUSE PEOPLE OF ARYA—THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL. Median and Persian plateau was Ir-an,meaning the land of the Aryans. Thename of Ire-land, formerly written Eire-land, preserves the same root, and thepoetical name Er-in, sometimes sup-posed to mean the land of the west, isonly the same word, and signifies theland of the plow. Aye, the very wordear-tb. is doubtless the same, preservingin its spelling and pronunciation the un-mistakable evidence of the primitive cultural, and this at a period before thebreakup of the ancient tribes in the orig-inal seats of Bactria. They were thepeople of the plow long before the Hel-lenes were known to history or the an-cient Medes had appeared as a power onthe Iranian plains. The general character of the early lifeof man is largely discoverable by his re-lations with the ot
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