A Literary History of India

To the delegates of the Clarendon Press I tun especially indebted for permission to quote from the Series of the *Sacred Books of the East —a monumental undertaking full of evidence of the scholarship untiring industry and wide sympathies in all matters connected with the East of Professor The Right Honourable F. Max To the liev. [...] From Chitral in the extreme north where the Ikshkamun and Baroghil Passes show the way across the Hindu Kush to the lonely height : of the PTmirs southwards to where the Khaibar Pass gives access to Kabul the Gamal and Tochi Passes lead to Ghazni and the Bolan still furtMr south to Quetta and Chaman on to the seaport town of Karachi in Sind a distance of 1300 miles the whole north-west and w [...] It was not long before grounds were found for locating tii c primitive Aryans somewhere to the north of the Black Sea from the Danube to the Caspian Nv hilt again on further investigation the home was shifted to Central and \Vest Germany.' The habitat was then removed to the whole of North Europe ' from the shores of the Atlantic to the cofines of the Ural range of mountains until at lengt [...] The comings and goings of the people the trivial life of mankind appeared but as a breath when compared to the mystery of the unchanging vault of Heaven the depths of the clear starlit nights ever soothing tc rest the sad rise and wane of the moon the glad red blush of the dawn as it awoke all Nature to life the unchanging passings of the sun in its three steps across the sky until in th [...] The weird influence of the magic of the priestly spell the sound df the blast of the tempest and the Muir o.sfr.7 pp.