Aryan race
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the Aryan race · Aryan communities · Aryan sub-races · Aryan usage · early Aryan society · societies of the Aryan race
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Broad ethno-linguistic grouping whose shared ancient customs are used to compare Irish, Roman, Hindoo and other law.
The evidence has been found on all sides of us, dimly seen and verifiable with difficulty in countries which have undergone the enormous pressure of the Roman Empire, or which have been strongly affected by its indirect influence, but perfectly plain and unmistakeable in the parts of the world, peopled by the Aryan race, where the Empire has made itself felt very slightly or not at all.
But wherever the institutions of any Aryan race have been untouched by it, or slightly touched by it, the common basis of Aryan usage is perfectly discernible;
I myself believe that the government of India by the English has been rendered appreciably easier by the discoveries which have brought home to the educated of both races the common Aryan parentage of Englishman and Hindoo.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Broad ethnolinguistic grouping used to link the Roman, Hindu, Germanic, and Celtic legal traditions.
The suggestion, then, which I offer is that the authority of the Court of Justice overshadowed all other ideas and considerations in the minds of these early code-makers, belonging to societies of the Aryan race so remote from one another and so unlike to one another.
Following a theory of Professor Max Müller, they trace the rhythmical texts of the so-called Codes to collections of maxims expressed in language so concise as to fasten themselves on the memory, and finally to their fountain-head in the oldest literature of the Aryan race.