"Our earliest glimpses of the human family in India, disclose two tribes of widely different origin, struggling for the mastery. In the primitive time, which lies on the horizon even of inductive history, a tall, fair-complexioned race passed the Himalaya. They came of a conquering stock. They had _known the safety_ and the _plenty_ which can only be enjoyed in regular communities.[34] _They brought with them a store of legends_ and devotional strains; and chief of all they were at the time of their migration southward through Bengal, if not at their first arrival in India, imbued with that high sense of nationality, which burns in the heart of a people who believe themselves the _depositary of a divine revelation_. There is no record of the newcomers' first struggle for life with the people of the land."--_Hunter's Annals_, p. 90. Here we see the more intellectual, the more spiritual (p. 116), monotheistic (p. 115) Aryan race overpowering the black race which had earliest pre-occupied the ground, and which was already tainted with demon worship. This contrast invites further inquiry; but first let me clear up and direct the immediate drift of my argument. [34] Mr Max Müller also says ("Chips," ii. p. 41)--"It should be observed that most of the terms connected with the chase and warfare differ in each of the Aryan dialects, while words connected with more peaceful occupations belong, generally, to the common heirloom of the Aryan language," which proves "that all the Aryan nations had led _a long life of peace before they separated_, and that their language acquired individuality and nationality, as each colony started in search of new homes,--new generations forming new terms connected with the warlike and adventurous life of their onward migrations. Hence it is that _not only Greek and Latin, but all Aryan_ languages have their peaceful words in common." Also _vide_ p. 28, 29. If we estimate--taking the minimum or the maximum either according to the Hebrew or Septuagint version--the time it would have taken these populations, according to the slow progress of the dispersion, to have arrived at their destinations from the plain of Sennaar (Mesopotamia), the period may be equally conjectured to correspond with that which tradition marks as the commencement of the iron age, when the world was becoming overcrowded, and the increasing populations came into collision.