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of the eccentricity of the earth’s orbit, the occurrence of winter at
aphelion is by itself sure to contribute to the production of the Ice
Age, if other causes and circumstances, either those suggested by
Lyell; or others, are favorable and 21,000 years must elapse between
two successive occurrences of winter at aphelion. For two Glacial
epochs with an intervening Inter-Glacial period, we must, therefore,
allow a period longer than 21,000 years, even if the question of the
eccentricity of the earth’s orbit be kept aside while, if, with Prof.
Geikie, we suppose that there were five Glacial (four in the
Pleistocene and one at the close of the Pliocene period) and four
Inter-Glacial epochs the duration must be extended to something like
80,000 years.
It is unnecessary to go further into these scientific and
geological discussions. I have already stated before that my object is
to trace from positive evidence contained in the Vedic literature the
home of the Vedic and, therefore, also of the other Aryan races, long
before they settled in Europe or on the banks of the Oxus, the
Jaxartes, or the Indus; and so far as this purpose is concerned, the
results of the latest scientific researches, discussed in this and the
previous chapter, may now be summed up as follows: —
(1) In the very beginning of the Neolithic age Europe is found to
be inhabited by races,, from whom the present races of Europe
speaking Aryan languages are descended.
(2) But though the existence of an Aryan race in Europe in early
Neolithic times is thus established, and, therefore, the theory of
migrations from an Asiatic home in Post-Glacial times is untenable, it
does not prove that the Aryan race was autochthonous in Europe,
and the question of its original home cannot, therefore, be regarded
as finally settled.
(3) There are good reasons for supposing that the metal age
was introduced into Europe by Foreign people.
(4) The different ages of Stone, Bronze and Iron were not
synchronous in different countries, and the high state of civilization in
Egypt is not, therefore, inconsistent with the Neolithic stage of
European civilization at the time.