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' fire.' They hare no circuiucision. They hare 110 forills of prayer.
They believe in witchcraft ancl the work of demons. After the
death of the body, the soul still likes aild requires fooil."
" Dr. Lop11 thougl~t that tlie Dravidia~ls hal-e a strong Bielanesian
or Indo-Afric element, and says that a llegi-o race overspread
Inclia before both the Scythiails and the Aryans. 1)e Quatrefages
agrees mith him, and says that, long before the historical period,
Iiiclia was illhabitecl by a black race resembliilg the -lustrn!ians,
and also, before history began, a yellow race came from the northeast.
Of the Ta~uilians Dr. Logan says :-' Some aye exceedingly
Iranian, Illore are Semitico-Iranian; some aye Seiuitic, others
Australian; so:ne remind us of Egyptians, xvilile otllers again
hare Maiaj-o-Polyiiesian ailcl even Semang ancl Pzpuan features.'
Professor AIax 3luller founcl in the Gollcls aucl other 11011-Aryan
Dravidians traces of a race closely resembling tlie acgro. Sir
George Campbell thinks that the race in occnp~tio~l of Inclia
before the Aryans was Negrito. Even in the seventll ce1ltul-y of
our era, a Brahula11 grammarian calls the Tanlil ancl Telugu
people 311&chchas, that is, aboriginals. Dr. DIuir thinks that the
Aryan wave of c3ncluest nlust imve been broken on tile Villdhya
mountains, the northern barrier of the Dekkai~"
I11 illis cliscussion, I have enclearourecl to she\' the origin of
oar Xustralixil nuinerals, the colllposition ailcl del-irat,ion of t,he
chief personal pronouns, ailcl of 2% number of typical words for
common things, ancl of these maily more could be citecl and examiiled
in the same may. I have sho~x-11, so far as I can, that
these pronouns, ailcl numerals, ancl test-morcls, and, inciclentally,
one of the postpositions, are collnectecl with root-~rorcls, which
lnust be as olil as the origin of the languaoe . for such ideas as
before,' ' begin,' ' first,' ' another,' ' follom~,? : change,' ' many*,'
seem to be essential to the existence of any language. I think I
may safely say the saine tlling about the root-mor(ls for ' vater,'
dunlb,' and 'eye.' It thus appears, from the present investigation,
that our Australians ha7-e a colnilloil heritage, along with the rest
of the world, in these root-m-orcls; for, if these blacks are a separate
creation ailcl so have no kinclrecl elsewhere, or were nerer in contact
wit11 the other races of mailkincl, I caililot conceive how they
have collie to possess primitive vorcls so like those in use over a
very 1%-icle area of the globe. I therefore ague that they are an
integral portio~l of the humail race. If so, \.hat is their origin?
On this point, our preseilt discussion may have tllrowil some light.
J.F.
THE GRhBIMi\E AND THE KEY.