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2 Symbolism of the East and West
been discovered in graves and bogs in Scandinavia and
classed as belonging to the Stone Age. The peoples who
used stone implements in the North of Europe, and were
io-norant of the use of metals, belonged to what is styled the
«o«-Aryan races ;
they were probably stone worshippers also.
It would seem highly probable, therefore, that aboriginal races
existed contemporaneously both in Asia and in Europe,— for
it is hardly credible that, with such appliances as the people
of the Stone Age possessed, they could have wandered from
one continent to the other, and (supposing them to have
come from the same stock as the Saiva worshippers of Asia)
have made their way to Scandinavia through Siberia and
Russia, cutting a path through the dense forests which are
supposed to have then existed in those regions. Non-Aryan
stone worship is very possibly nearly, if not quite, as ancient
as the Aryan worship of the Sun, the Planets, and of Fire.
To this day, both in Asia and in Europe, the «t>«-Aryan
races appear to be those who seem capable of, and who have
consequently attained to, only the lowest type of civilisation.
They differ essentially from the Aryans in type and in
features :
those
of India seem to be wanting both in self-
respect and in natural intelligence.
Judging from the remains of prehistoric art in the
Museums of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, it would seem
as if two great waves of Ar)un peoples (conquerors of non-
Aryans) had made their way from Central Asia into Scandinavia
at different and widely separated intervals. The
advent of the first of these—the workers in bronze—has
been placed about looo a.c. ; they
are believed to have
belonged to what we style the Keltic race. They may have