________________
240
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
quotation from the most recent clerical authority:-"Given an ancient dedication to St. Michael and a site associated with a headland, hill-top, or spring, on a road or track of early origin, it is reasonable to look for a pre-Christian sanctuary-a prehistoric centre of religious worship." And he winds up with the statement that "for the first time" it is discovered that "the racial title Arya or Aryan ... is the Hitto-Sumerian word Arri."
12. The Aryan Phoenician Element in the British Isles.
In discussing the general question Waddell starts with quotations from the Vedas, which show his attitude :
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.
Indra alone hath tamed the dusky races And subdued them for the Aryans.
[DECEMBER, 1925
Yet, Indra, thou art for evermore The common Lord of all alike.
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.
Waddell's general view is that there were several successive waves of immigration of the Aryan Catti-Barat Stock, and despite the mixture with aboriginal blood, this stock has survived in tolerable purity. As to the extent of the intermixture, the early Aryan Gothic invaders were essentially a race of highly-civilized ruling aristocrats in relatively small numbers, and before the arrival of Brutus the Trojan, there was little intermixing. Permanent settlement seems only to have begun in his time, but the aborigines were of a different colour and inferior mentality, and inter-marriage was repugnant. However, increase in the Aryan population and rise in status of aborigines brought about intermarriage, which steadily increased until there is "no such thing as an absolutely pure-blood Aryan left in the British Isles." Yet the superior intellectuality of the Aryan tended to fix his prominence in the intermixture, making him the back-bone of the nation, though there has never been any wiping out of aboriginal stocks. Therefore on the whole "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 does Waddell unconsciously answer a question that constantly arises in the reader's mind during a study of his book:-how could the Phoenicians, assuming that they really did come into and conquer the whole country, have so entirely dominated the minds and the languages of the aboriginal races of Britain ?
Waddell has had a magnificent dream, but his methods of etymological, ethnical, and chronological comparison and historical deduction make it impossible for scholars to believe that he has shown it to be true, despite the immense labour he has bestowed on it.
