"There was and is anAryan Race,that is to say, the characteristic modes of speech, termed Aryan, were developed among the
Blond Long-heads alone, however much some of them may have
been modified by the importation of Non-Aryan elements."
(" The Aryan Question" in Nineteenth Century, 1890. 766.)
Thus the daring Phcenician pioneer mariners who, with
splendid courage, in their small winged galleys, first explored
the wide seas and confines of the Unknown Ancient World,
and of whose great contributions to the civilization of Greece
and Rome classic writers speak in glowing terms, were,
I found by indisputable inscriptional and other evidence,
not Semites as hitherto supposed, but were Aryans in Race,
Speech and Script. They were, besides,disclosed to bethelineal
blood-ancestors of the Britons and Scots-properly so-called,
that is, as opposed to the aboriginal dark Non-Aryan people
of Albion, Caledonia and Hibernia, the dusky small-statured
Picts and kindred" Iberian" tribes.
This discovery, of far-reaching effecupon the history of
European Civilization, and of Britain in particular, was
announced in a summary of some of the results of my
researches on Aryan Origins in the" Asiatic Review" for 1917
(pp. 197f.). And it is now strikingly confirmed and established by the discovery of hitherto undeciphered Phcenician
and Sumerian inscriptions in Britain (the first to be recorded
in Britain), and by a mass of associated historical evidence
from a great variety of originalsources, includinghitherto uninterpreted pre-Roman-Briton coins and contemporary inscriptions, most of which is now published for the first time. In one of these inscriptions, a bi-lingual Phcenician
inscription in Scotland of about 400 B.C., now deciphered
and translated for the first time, its author, in dedicating a
votive monument to the Sun-god Bel, calls himself by all
three titles; Phcenician," "Briton" and "Scot"