Chapter XXIII
ARYAN PHOENICIAN RACIAL ELEMENT IN THE
MIXED
"Are we not brothers? So man and man should be:
But clay and clay differs in Dignity,
Whose dust is both alike."--SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline.
"Indra hath helped his Aryan worshippers
In frays that win the Light of Heaven.
He gave to his Aryan men the godless, dusky race:
Righteously blazing he burns the malicious
away."--Rig Veda, 1, 130, 8.
"Indra alone hath tamed the dusky races
And subdued them for the Aryans.--R.V., 6, 183.
"Yet, Indra, thou art for evermore
The common Lord of all alike."--Rig Veda,
8, 547.
"And to him who worships truly Indra gives
Many and matchless gifts--He who slew the Dragon.
He is to be found straightway by all
Who struggle prayerfully for the Light."--Rig
Veda, 2, 19, 4.
WE have found, by a mass of concrete attested facts and other cumulative confirmatory evidence, that Civilization properly so-called is synonymous with Aryanization; and that it was first introduced into Britain in the Stone Age, about 2800 B.C., or earlier, by Hitto-Phoenician "Catti," or Early Gothic sea-merchants from the Levant engaged in the Tin, Bronze and Amber trade and industries, who were Aryans in Speech, Script and Race--tall, fair, broad-browed and long-headed. Of the leading clan of Aryans, they bore the patronymic of Barat or "Brit-on," and, settling on the
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There were several successive waves of immigration of this Aryan Catti-Barat civilizing stock from the coast of Asia Minor and Syria-Phoenicia by way of the Mediterranean into the British Isles; and the different sections of that Aryan civilizing race called themselves variously Muru or Martu ("Amorite"), Cymr, Somer or Cumber, Barat or Briton, Goth or Gad, Catti, Ceti, Cassi, Xat or Scot, or Sax or Sax-on.
Their descendants continued to be
the ruling race therein until modern times, excepting the Roman period, though
even then several sections continued to maintain their independence in Wales,
Cumbria, Scotland and Ireland. The later invaders, Jutes, Angles, Saxons,
Norse, Danes and Normans were merely kindred North Sea colonists of the same
Aryan racial Catti or Gothic stock; while the minor immigrations of batches of
Belgians and others from the Continent into South Britain, mentioned by Caesar,
do not appear to have been racially Aryan. And we have seen that the fair
round-heads of Germanic type of the East Coast and
The Phoenician Catti or Gothic Aryan strain, derived from
the first civilizers of
It is desirable now to examine
the extent of the intermixture of these Aryan and non-Aryan races in the
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The Early Aryan Gothic invaders and civilizers are seen to have been
essentially a race of highly-civilized ruling aristocrats; and relatively few
in numbers in proportion to the aboriginal population of the country. In
physical type they were of the Aryan race, that is to say, tall-statured,
fair-complexioned, with blue or greyish eyes, broad-browed and long-headed, as
opposed to the small-statured, dark-complexioned, narrow-browed, and
long-headed Pictish "Iberian" aborigines of the Stone Age, and the
fringe of somewhat superior-cultured Stone Age race of medium-sized,
fair-complexioned, broad-browed, but round-headed Slavonic or Germanic Huns,
the beaker-using men of the "Round Barrows," who came from the Baltic
and Germany, who settled along the East Coast and in the Midlands; and whose
descendants still exist there to a considerable extent at the present day in
relatively pure form. {This
"Germanic" round-headed type is still marked along the East Coast.
Thus, whereas
Anterior to the arrival of Brutus
about 1103 B.C. the
Catti-Phoenician occupation of
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trades, appear to have been
floating colonies of merchant seamen and adventurers, who at first occupied
strategic islets or peninsular seaports off-lying the chief native trade marts
or mines, such as the Phoenicians usually selected for defensive purposes in
most of their early colonies, on the model of Tyre, Sidon, Acre, Aradus,
Carthage and Gades (or Cadiz). Of such a character are Ictis or St. Michael's
Mount, Wight, Gower, the Aran isles off
Permanent settlement with
systematic civilization and colonization with cultivation appears to have begun
only with the arrival of Brutus and his Britons about 1103 B.C. They brought their wives and families with them. They were
strictly monogamists, as was the Aryan custom. At first they appear to
have lived apart from the aborigines in home towns and villages of their own by
themselves, presumably from their exclusive racial instincts, or possibly in
part for self-defence, being so few in numbers. This is evidenced by the great
number of the earliest towns and ports bearing merely their own Aryan racial or
tribal names. It is supported also by the British Chronicle tradition that
Brutus "made choice of the citizens that were to inhabit" his
first-founded city--
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present
day in the contact between civilized Europeans and the primitive races in
Intermarriage of the Aryans with the non-Aryan uncivilized primitive people of a different colour and inferior mentality was naturally repugnant to the racial instinct. And even marriage with an aboriginal princess was viewed with disfavour. Thus we have Virgil lamenting in regard to the re-marriage of AEneas, the great-grandfather of the Aryan king Brutus, with a native princess in his Italian exile:
"An alien bride is the Trojan's bane once more." {AEneid, 6, 94.}
As time went on, however, and the
Aryans multiplied, and in the meantime the aborigines had gradually been raised
in the scale of civilization by passing through the mill of Aryanization in
speech, customs and habits of life, a certain amount of intermarriage would
doubtless begin to take place. Especially was this likely to happen under the
usual policy of the Hitto-Phoenician statesmen, who early recognized that the
stability of the state depended largely on its being based upon Nationality.
Hence in their colonies, as seen in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, the Levant,
Ancient Greece, etc., they were in the habit in their city-states of welding
together the diverse racial and tribal units of a region into one Nation,
united by the bonds forged by a common Aryan Speech, and by living together
under the same Aryan Laws, with equal rights of citizenship and a common patriotism.
For the Hitto-Phoenicians were the founders of Free Institutions and
Representative Government. {Details Aryan
Origins.}
With the growth of democracy such commingling of racial blood would tend to become still more common. And the opening up of freer communications with the interior by arterial roads and latterly, in modern times, by
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rail, and the gravitation of the rural population to the towns with the rise of cosmopolitan feeling has broken down the racial barrier to a great extent, and completed the fusion more or less of the diverse races. And all memory of the original sharp ancestral distinction between the superior and civilizing Aryan ruling race and the inferior non-Aryan indigenous race has now become more or less completely forgotten, even by the relatively pure Aryan element which has remained least affected by such intermarriages. And the outstanding differences in physique resulting from this intermixture exhibited amongst the mixed race of the present day, in respect to stature, complexion, colour of hair and eyes, and shape of head and face, are generally now regarded as merely curious, fortuitous or accidental personal peculiarities, although obviously more or less hereditary.
As a result of this more or less
free intermixture of non-Aryan blood with the Aryan, operating through many
centuries, there is now, perhaps, no such thing as an absolutely pure-blooded Aryan left
in the
Tending to conserve the Aryan
type, by restraining free intermixture with other races, is the conscious or
subconscious racial instinct which has been variously called "race
pride," "race prejudice" or "race antipathy," as has
been shown by Sir Arthur Keith and other anthropologists. These observers
remark that this feeling still exists to the present day in the
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Another factor which tends to
conserve the Aryan type appears to be the remarkable provision of Nature for
securing "the survival of the fittest," by which she refuses to lose
the painstaking progress made through long evolution towards a higher type by
chance interference with her machinery, or by diluting her products. It has
been found that the progeny of a marriage between two races of different
physical types and head-form are not the mere mean or average between the two
parent types, but belong to one or other of the separate parent (or
grandparent) types as regards head and brain formation, {Mere colouration or pigmentation--the colour of the skin, hair and
eyes--on the other hand, are immediately altered by inter-marriage in a more or
less mechanical ratio, in accordance with the scale in Mendel's laws of
heredity.} the different racial head-forms tending to refuse to mix,
like oil and water. Thus the intermarriage of a long-head and a round-head
usually results in one or other of the children being long-headed, and another
round-headed, like one or other of their parents, and not an intermediate type
of head. "The result was in many cases not a mixture, as if we mix red and
white wine, but it was often a manifest reversion to the original types. In
this way, good old types, once fixed by long inbreeding, do not necessarily get
lost by intermarriage, but often return with astonishing energy." {Prof. F. v. Luschan, The Early
Inhabitants of
In this way the subsequent
intermarriage of individuals of a relatively pure Aryan type would tend to
enhance and fix the predominance of the Aryan blood strain introduced into
There is no need in these days to argue against the idea advocated by Freeman and Green that the Britons were totally exterminated by the Anglo-Saxons. There is no historical evidence whatsoever to show or even suggest that the Anglo-Saxons--fierce pagans though they were, and the destroyers of Christianity amongst the Britons in the area they invaded--were such inhuman butchers as to massacre wholesale the men, women and children
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in
Similarly, in the Norman invasion, which put an end to Anglo-Saxon rule, there was no extermination of either the Britons or Anglo-Saxons. The Nor-mans or North-men were also a branch of the Aryan Barat Goths or Catti, who merely happened to be frenchified in dialect, by a short sojourn in Normandy; but they retained their ecclesiastic architecture of Gothic type, They also were soon absorbed by the Britons in both blood and speech, adding a few French idioms to the Briton stock of speech now known as "English." But as the English historian Palgrave truly says:--"Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Danes and Normans
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were all relations: however
hostile, they were all kinsmen, shedding kindred blood." {Sir F. Palgrave,
It is thus evident that the terms Briton, British, English, Scot, Cymri, Welsh or Irish in their present-day use have largely lost their racial sense and are now used mainly in their national sense. Thus a great proportion of those who proudly call themselves "English" have little or no Angle or Saxon blood in their veins, and are not strictly entitled to call themselves "English" at all. And similarly with Scot, Cymri and British properly so-called: a person born in Scotland even of remote native ancestry is not necessarily of the Scot race properly so-called; but is more often than not of the non-Aryan physical type of the Pict or "Celt." Yet, although so composite in race, the British nation, through its insularity, is even less heterogeneous in composition than most of the many continental countries which have secured or clamour for self-determination on "racial" grounds, an idea derived from the spread of Western Aryan "Nationalism."
The aggregate Aryan racial
element in the population of the
Certainly the existing aristocracy, which has been
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so largely recruited in modern times from miscellaneous party politicians and successful capitalists, has not only no monopoly of the Aryan type, but is to an appreciable extent obviously of the non-Aryan type--which is, perhaps, also to be explained in part by the fact that the Aryan rulers were in the habit of often confirming aboriginal chiefs in their chieftainship subject to Aryan suzerainty. And not a few individuals of this relatively pure Aryan physique are also to be seen amongst what are called "the Lower Classes," and may possibly explain to some extent the fact that whatever the general quality of the "Lower Classes" may be, it has always furnished capable candidates for vacancies in the "Upper."
In regard to the general
topographical distribution of this relatively pure Aryan type in
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they cross the
In
And similarly the modern industrial and political unrest among the masses, with bitter strife between Capital and Labour and between Thrift and Unthrift, and the growth of crude revolutionary notions against the established order of Civilization, with proposals not unfrequently antagonistic to the cherished Aryan tradition of Freedom, and destructive of the foundations of that Civilization which has raised the masses of the people from the misery of the Stone Age "herd" into the material and social blessings which they now enjoy, are obviously to a considerable extent the result of the deep-seated race antagonism still surviving amongst the conflictingly diverse racial elements comprised within the British nation. And the like explanation may be given of the corresponding industrial unrest in other Aryanized countries.
In view of the Early Aryans having been the originators of the Higher Civilization, which has raised mankind to a higher plane of life, and having been at the same time the chief agents in the Propagation and Progress of Civilization it would be interesting to ascertain in what proportion the Aryan physique is present in the modern leaders of our Nation--in the spheres of government, science, industry, capital and labour and in "socialism."
Returning to the question of the physical and mental results of the mixing of races, we find that, when the process continues to go on for a prolonged period, the ultimate effect
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is to produce a mixed or hybrid
race, which is of quite a different type from either parent race. This is what
is now taking place to a considerable extent in the
"A marriage across a racial frontier gives rise to an offspring so different from both parent races that it cannot be naturally grouped with either the one or the other." {Sir A. Keith, Nationality and Race, 1919, 9.}
This evolution of a mixed or
hybrid race is well seen in the Basque race of the Biscay regions, a people who
have been affiliated to the Picts, as we have seen, and among whom the process
of mixing has been going on for a longer period than in
It is a somewhat similar mixed
race which is now arising in
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face of the Aryan type which has been remarked by Sir Arthur Keith. And the relative stature of many of the individuals of the darker mixed race tends to become increased, and to give in the case of the admixture with the Alpine or "Germanic" type a tallish and relatively round-headed dark "Celtic" type in some cases.
{Dr. Beddoe describes the result reached by this mixing of types at the period of the Roman occupation as in the skulls of the Romano-British interments. "These skulls are intermediate in length and breadth between the long-barrow and the round-barrow forms; they have the prominent occiput [back of head] of the former with some degree of the parietal dilatation [round- or broad-headedness] of the latter . . . . This character belongs to neither of the other types but seems to me a probable result of their partial fusion." (B.R.B., 18). For a much later period, comprising one or two centuries past, a large series of skulls from an old graveyard on the Celtic-speaking borderland at Glasgow has recently been analysed by Prof. T. H. Bryce and Dr. J. Young and discloses amongst other things the broader brow and head of this mixed racial type in Scotland. See Trans. R.S. Edin., 1911.}
On the mental character and psychology and temperamental predispositions of this new mixed race, the effect of this fusion of the diverse racial blood, with broadening of the Pictish brain, is not inconsiderable. It should be expected to bridge over to some extent and minimize the latent racial antagonisms between the respective parent races. This interbreeding is supposed to unite as compensatory benefits certain desirable temperamental traits which are possessed by one or other of the parent races and are absent in the other. Thus the "Celtic" or Pictish race is usually credited with being passionate and the sole possessor of that emotional trait popularly called "Celtic fire," though also possessing fatalistic traits tending to retard progress both of which are alleged to be more or less absent in the Aryan type.
The psychological and
temperamental contrast between the "Celtic," or Keltic, and the Aryan
races in
"The Kelt is still a Kelt, mercurial, passionate, vehement, impulsive, more courteous than sincere voluble or eloquent, fanciful if not imaginative, quick-witted and brilliant rather than profound, elated with success, but easily depressed, hence lacking in steadfastness."
The Aryan type, according to the same authority, still remains
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"stolid and solid, outwardly abrupt, but warm-hearted and true, haughty and even overbearing through an innate sense of superiority, yet at heart sympathetic and always just, hence a ruler of men; seemingly dull or slow, yet pre-eminent in the realms of philosophy and imagination (Newton and Shakespeare)." {K.M., 532.}
The advantages of race mixture are advocated by many recent psychologists. Galton and Havelock Ellis have brought forward a variety of evidence, tending to show that great Englishmen are born on the borderland between the old Briton and Saxon settlements, and were presumably the result of "race mixture." But this does not appear to be really a case of race mixture, as the Britons and Saxons are of the same race, whilst the Pictish and "Celtic" elements are widely diffused throughout the whole land.
It remains to be seen whether the higher outstanding Aryan capacity for ruling, and the Aryan genius for constructive progress in science, philosophy, and the Higher Civilization, and the high moral fibre of the Aryan, suffer any relaxation in the new mixed race; and whether the grand old Aryan type is dethroned, swamped and become extinct. This is a problem for the Eugenists.
In the achievement and preservation and progress of the Higher Civilization there is to be noted the supreme prominence which the Aryan founders of Civilization placed upon the indispensableness of the Religion of the One and Only Universal Father-god as the corner stone in the fabric of the Higher Civilization, as seen evidenced everywhere in the profusion of their magnificent Aryan votive religious monuments and inscriptions from the earliest period, and in their sacred hymns, as cited in the heading and in previous chapters. This practical necessity for the Higher Aryan Religion, with its exalted. ethics, in the preservation and progress of Civilization is altogether ignored by Socialists, Communists and Anarchists in modern times. Our newly-found fresh light on the Origin of Civilization and on the Aryan men and supermen of genius who founded it and discovered the true paths for its future progress, discloses
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more clearly even than before the necessity for the Higher Religion occupying a foremost place in Civilization; and that the short-sighted godless attempts at "government" by the French and other revolutionists and the Bolsheviks were and are foredoomed to failure, if Civilization itself is not to be utterly destroyed.
Here, it is also to be noted that
the racial titles of "Briton" and "British" apply also
equally to several of our colonies, not excepting that former great colony of
Britain across the Atlantic, the great Western republic, severed from its Motherland
by the intolerable tyranny and feudal despotism rampant under George
"Our standards of character and of honour and of duty are your standards; and life and freedom have the same meaning with us that they have with you. These are the essential things, and in this we have always been one."
It therefore behoves these two of the greatest of the Aryanized kindred nations in the world to translate their union of Thought into union of Action, in working together for the preservation and progress of the Higher Civilization of the Aryans, for the welfare of the World, and as a bounden duty which they owe their immortal ancestors, from whom they have inherited the priceless boon of British Civilization, the virile Aryan Brito-Phoenicians.
We thus find that in the complex welter of mixed races
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which has arisen in
FIG. 73.--Early Bronze-Age Briton button-amulet Cross.
From barrow grave at Rudstone, Yorks.
(After Greenwell. Brit.
Barrows, 54.)
It is of jet, with eyelet on
under surface for attachment.
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