No account is here given of the theory that the Chinese and the Babylonian writing are derived from the same source, as this new and startling theory is not sufficiently upon the _tapis_ to be treated of in a book of this kind. The reader who is desirous of informing himself upon the subject may do so (as far as is yet possible) by obtaining the pamphlet by M. Terrien de la Couperie, _Early History of Chinese Civilization_, wherein this theory was first expounded, as also another and subsequent _brochure_, _History of Archaic Chinese Writing_.
Curtius, _History of Greece_ (trs.). Gibbon, with notes by Milman, etc. Latham, _Germania of Tacitus_. Latham, _Nationalities of Europe_. Von Maurer, Op. cit. Mommsen, _Die unterital. Dialekten_. Mommsen, _Roman History_ (trs.).
P. 320. Following Mommsen, the Etruscans are here spoken of as though belonging to the Italic family. This is liable to grave doubts; but the question is at present too unsettled to admit of satisfactory discussion in this place.
Abraham, Bible history begins with, 113, 129; and Lot, 126, 155.
Accadians, 124, 128; the inventors of cuneiform writing, 311.
Adoption, ceremony of, among the Aryans, 146.
Agglutinative languages, 79, 81, 83, 88 _et seq._; spoken by the yellow race, 118.
Agni, 210; hymn to, 211; the Indian fire-god, 248.
Agricultural life, the, gives rise to new relations, 156.
Ahura-mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism, 234.
Ancestor worship, 143; of the Aryans, 147.
Aphroditê, 206, 224; an Asiatic divinity, 318.
Apollo, 202, 209, 214; the god of the Dorians and Ionians, 216; shrines of, 216; the sun-god pursuing Daphne, 257; found in the mythology of all branches of the Aryan family, 258.
Aral, lake, the region of, the home of the Turanians, 120.
Ares, the national divinity of the Thracians, 220.
Artemis, 204, 223 _et seq._; and Endymion, the story of, a moon myth, 263.
Aryans, 98; the origin of, 99; evidence of language concerning, 108; the early, a pastoral people, 132; their entry into Europe, 133; their social system, 140; their faculty for abstract thought, 201; the other world of, 241 _et seq._; possessed a spiritual conception of the soul, 246; separation of, 316; their languages, 90; two main divisions of, 91; their mythology, remarkable for diversity of its legends, 199; their religion contrasted with Semitic, 197; the sky-god in, 199.