| Show tho of tha word aryan cf we lava to inquire into the mean ing of tho woid aryan and thi is nola or one about abero is much question in sanskrit Sani krit tho word rya with a bhart initial a id applied to cultivators a of alio boil anil it would seem to be connected illy with the litin awe and the archaic english ear to plow A men who had rin to an agricultural stage of civilization iza tion tha aryans might no doubt fairly contrast themselves with their nomadic neighbor who as and burks have at jimca disturbed tho world but for the real source of the word as applied to tho race we must look further this word arya a cultivator of the goil came naturally enough in sanskrit to mean a hou choder or land orvner and benco it 14 not strange that we find it recurring with i long initial a aa an adjective meaning noble or of good family As a national appellative whether in sanskrit or zend this initial a i always long and there can be no doubt the aryans gave thit si being tho noble aristo crattic or ruling race in contrades con tradis ton to tho aboriginal races which they brought into servitude in this lenge cf noble the word frequently occurs in the composition of persian proper names such HI Aria ramnes and an arache aral he just as in old english we tho equivalent word ditl or noble sn such names ni n i Etbel wolf and ethelred A an ethnic name therefore the word aryan seems to havo ft tinge of patriotic or clannish about it but we shall find think that such a shade of meaning ha been more than justified by history for wo havo now reached ft point anere we may profitably enlarge the scope of our di cusio nand show how the torm aryan I properly pro perl applicable not merely over an indo persian but over an ind i european area comprehend ind the dominant racca known to histo rythe greeks and romans and Teu tons with the highly composite english whose language and civilization aro now spreading themselves with unexampled tap edity over all tho hitherto unoccupied regions of tho earth which tho did not care or did not know bow to specify february at |
