[40] It is found that the peculiarity of curling or not curling in hair depends upon the form, the form in _section_, of the individual hairs. The woolly hairs are oval in section, the straight ones round.
[41] Lenormant, _Manual of the Ancient History of the East_, vol. i., p. 55.
[42] Not that this particular foothold has descended to the Turks from early times. See the next paragraph.
[43] Lenormant, _Manual_, i. 343. It should be remarked that the authority of Justin on such a point is not high.
[44] Mariette’s date is B.C. 5004, Lepsius’s 3892, Wilkinson’s only 2700. Wilkinson’s chronology, however, founded upon the theory of _contemporaneous dynasties_ in the lists of Manetho, has now been generally rejected.
[45] Shûmîr was a portion of the country inhabited by the Accadians.
[50] ‘Fool! why journeyest thou wearisomely in thy antiquarian fervour to gaze on the stone pyramids of Geeza, or the clay stones of Sacchara? These stand there, as I can tell thee, idle and inert, looking over the desert, foolishly enough, for the last three thousand years; but canst thou not open thy Hebrew BIBLE, or even Luther’s version thereof?’ _Sartor Resartus._
[51] For example, the Hindee _rupee_, the Latin _pecunia_, and our _fee_.
[52] As the Sanskrit _gôpa_, ‘a prince,’ the Slavonic _hospodar_ (from _gôspada_) contains the word _gô_, our ‘cow,’ and means the protector of the cattle; from the same root, Sanskrit _gavya_, ‘pasturage,’ Saxon _gê_, ‘county,’ Greek _gaia_, or _gê_, ‘earth.’
[54] Cattle were probably originally communal property: and were appropriated to individuals at a later stage than other movable goods. In the Roman law we find that they could only be transferred by the same forms as were required for the conveyance of land: being classed amongst the ‘res mancipi.’
[55] The same connection between ‘mother’ and ‘daughter’ villages also once existed to a large extent in Germany.
[56] That is to say, the stories themselves may be old enough; the application of them to some special members of a pantheon marks the condition of the creed.
[57] The etymology of Indra’s name is uncertain. It cannot therefore be said whether or no he was originally a sun-god, though he has many of the attributes of one. In the Vedas he is also a god of storms.