वेदों की प्राचीनता एवं काल-निर्णय / ओरायन (लोकमान्य बाल गंगाधर तिलक - खगोलीय वैदिक शोध)

16 'THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS. at present, spoken in Europe by races exhibiting the charac- teristics of all these types. It is, however, evident that one alone of these four ancient races can be the real representative of the Aryan race, though there is a strong difference of opinion as to which of them represented the primitive Aryans. German writers, like Posche and Penka, claim that the tall dolicho-cephalic race, the ancestors of the present Germans, were the true representative Aryans; while French writers, like Chavee and M. de Mortillet, maintain that the primitive Aryans were brachy-cephalic and the true Aryan type is represented by the Gauls. Canon Taylor in his 'Origin of the Aryans sums up the controversy by observing that when two races come in contact, the probability is that the speech of the most cultured will prevail, and therefore “it is" he says “an easier hypothesis to suppose that the dolicho- cephalic savages of the Baltic coast acquired Aryan speech from their brachy-cephalic neighbours, the Lithuanians, than to suppose, with Penka, that they succeeded in some remote age in Aryanis- ing the Hindus, the Romans and the Greeks.”* Another method of determining which of these four races represented the primitive Aryans in Europe is to compare the grades of civilisation attained by the undivided Aryans, as ascertained from linguistic palæontology, with those attained by the Neolithic races as disclosed by the remains found in their dwellings. As for the Palæolithic man his social condition appears to have been far below that of the undivided Aryans; and Dr. Schrader considers it as indubitably either non-Indo-European or pre-Indo-European in character. The Palæolithic man used stone hatchets and bone needles, and had attained some proficiency in the art of sculpture and drawing, as exhibited by outlines of various animals carved on bones &c.; but he was clearly unacquainted

• See Taylor's Origin of the Aryans, p. 243.