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.