Excerpt from The Origin of the Aryans: An Account of the Prehistoric Ethnology and Civilization of Europe The last ten years have seen a revolution in the Opinion of scholars as to the region in which the Aryan race originated, and theories which not long ago were universally accepted as the well-established conclusions of science now hardly find a defender. In Germany several works have been devoted exclusively to the subject, but no English book has yet appeared giving an account of the state Of the controversy, and embodying the results recently arrived at by philologists, archaeologists, and anthropologists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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