Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . otthe earth are to thegeologist. Theicare even to be dis-covered in theseworks some hintsof chronology. Itis now concededthat the Rig-Vedais the oldest bookin the possessionof the human may be that in-vestigations here-after among Ori-entals, particularlythe Chinese, maysubstitute someother work for theHindu Bible. It isnow generally ad-mitted that the earliest hymns of the Vedic collectiongo back to wellnigh three thous
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . otthe earth are to thegeologist. Theicare even to be dis-covered in theseworks some hintsof chronology. Itis now concededthat the Rig-Vedais the oldest bookin the possessionof the human may be that in-vestigations here-after among Ori-entals, particularlythe Chinese, maysubstitute someother work for theHindu Bible. It isnow generally ad-mitted that the earliest hymns of the Vedic collectiongo back to wellnigh three thousandyears before our era. The sacredbooks of Zoroastrianism were compiledat a later date. The evidence of lan-guage is sufficient to show that theIranic speech and religious institutionswere developed at a period considerablj subsequent to that from which the Rig-Veda proceeded. It is possible that thehymns and ceremonials composing thismost ancient book were sung or chantedby the Aryan tribes long before theydescended into the valleys of India. Itis certain at least that the language waswell forward in evolution of structureand determination of vocabulary while. TYPE OF THE ANCIENT ERAHM—LEPER KING OF ANGCOR by E. Tournois, after a sketch of Delaportc. the Iranians and Indicans still drifted ina common migration toward the southand east. The distribution of the Indie peoples,first into the Punjab and afterwardsinto the lower valleys, thence into theuplands, and finally eastward to thefoothills of the Himalayas, has already 482 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. been described. It was here that the great race of Brahm expanded throiigh centuries of progress into Expansion of j. o the race of that fixed national form Brahm in India. i • i i • • , i which we discover m theearlier epochs of authentic the Brahmanic form of worshipprevailed. Here the Indian castes wereestablished in society. Here thosepeculiar philosophical theories of lifeand duty and destiny wer
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