A fine overview of early European racial anthropology, first published in a time before political correctness and leftist hatred suppressed the science.
Taylor, the Canon of York, provides a comprehensive summary of the vexed issue of the origins of the Indo-European peoples.
He points out that there is no “Aryan race” per se, but rather a collection of Aryan languages—and shows that language alone cannot be a final indicator of racial origins.
Taylor’s book was the first major English-language work to reject the Ex oriente lux theory of Indo-European origins in favor of a birthplace in southern Russia.
Using a thorough evaluation of cranial, archaeological and cultural evidence, he presents his conclusion.
Often attacked and dismissed by contemporaries, modern DNA has proven many of Taylor’s theories to be completely accurate.