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 formidable people in the shape of the Huns and Goths. Their ferociousness can be traced in their present descendants India saw members of the same stock in Aryan invasions. They drove the ancient people of India to their mountain fastnesses. They would not leave even a breathing-space to their enemies. We often hear nowadays the Hindus in India boasting of Aryan civilization, but if it inspired its people with the worst kind of hatred against the Untouchables—the residue of the Indian aborigines—it could not claim even a semblance of refinement and good manners. The Untouchables, even to-day, are not allowed, in India, many of the rights of humanity; their shadow was once shunned, and even now they are kept at a distance from others; and this is only a vestige of the tyranny that the ancient Aryans used to exercise towards those who were only guilty of owning India as their motherland.

The units of the same stock—the people living around the Caspian Sea—were the Tartars of Central Asia in pre-Islamic days. They overran the whole country and reduced it to ashes. They brought destruction and devastation wherever they went. The sound of their drum was a death-knell to those who