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Properly speaking, Aryan is synonymous with Indo-European and signifies not a race but a great family of languages to which belong both our own English and the Hindu Sanskrit. When speaking of people who belong to the white race, let TIME use the word Caucasian. But the Hindus also are largely Caucasian with an admixture of other races. Therefore, TIME errs in grouping them with the Japanese either as non-Aryan or non-Caucasian people...
Scientifically the word Aryan refers to language rather than race. Some scholars in England applied it to the whole family of Indo-European languages but stricter philologists confined its use to one Indo-European branch?Sanskrit, Iranian, and their modern dialects in North India and Persia. Max Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went...
...word sprouted in fertile soil and quickly got out of hand. A considerable body of German scholars not only gave Aryan the widest possible linguistic meaning, but applied it as a race-name to the primitives who spread over Europe from their unknown homeland. These learned men asserted that Indo-Europeans were fair-haired, blue-eyed, resembled in all ways the ideal German...
...station, waiting to be taken out and shot. Man's Fate is not a pleasant book but few readers will soon forget their encounter with it. The Author, at 32, is already acknowledged as a front-rank European writer. Son of a French civil servant, he went to Indo-China at 20. made an archaeological expedition to Cambodia and Siam, was not only an eyewitness of some of China's bloodiest revolutionary years (1925-27) but an actor in them. He was Commissioner of Propaganda for the revolutionary government of the South ; as a member of the Committee...
...Japan has just politely indicated that she does not care to have the Chinese question on the agenda. Her recent demarche would indicate that she intends to treat it as a fait accompli. France, like the other powers, is not without Chinese interests, in Yunnan, as well as in Indo-China, and any undue increase in Japanese influence could only cause in Japanese influence could only cause uneasiness at the Quai d'Orsay...