30,000.  So then, four sub-races would have occupied the first 840,000 years of the Fifth Race’s history; and our present fifth sub-race would have been in being during the last 160,000 years; in which time five family-races would have flourished and passed; and this present sixth family-race would be about ten millenniums old.  Now, no single branch of the Aryans:  by which term I mean the sixth family-race; I shall confine it to that, and not apply it to the Fifth Root-Race as a whole,—­no single race among the Aryans has been universal, or dominant, or prominent even, during the whole of the last ten thousand years.  The Teutons (including Anglo-Saxons), who loom so largely now, cut a very small figure in the days when Latin was, in its world, something more universal than English is in ours; and a few centuries before that, you should have heard Celtic, and little else, almost anywhere in Europe.  This shows how fleeting a thing is the sovereignty of any language; within the three thousand years we know about, three at least of the Aryan language-groups have been ‘universal’; within the last ten milleniums there has been time enough, and to spare, for a ‘universality’ each of Sanskrit, Persian, Greek, Slavonic, Latin, Teutonic, and Celtic.  So evidently none of these is the language of the family-race:  we may speak of the Aryan Family-Race; not of the Celtic or Slavonic.

But it does not follow that the whole sub-race is not Aryan too.  Mr. Judge says somewhere that Sanskrit will be the universal language again.  Supposing that there were some such scheme of evolution here, as in the world-chain?  You know the diagram in The Secret Doctrine, with the teaching as to the seven rounds. As above, so below; when H. P. Blavatsky seems to be giving you a sketch of cosmic evolution, often she is at the same time, if you can read it, telling you about the laws that govern your own and the race’s history.  I suspect some such arrangement as this:  when the sub-race began, 160,000 years ago, Sanskrit was its ‘universal’ language; spoken by all the Aryans that moved out over Europe and into India.  An unaccountable Sanskrit inscription has been found in Asia Minor;* and there is Lithuania, a little speech-island in northeastern Central Europe, where a nearly Sanskrit language, I believe, survives.  Then Sanskrit changed imperceptibly (as American is changing from English) into the parent language of the Persian group, which became the general speech of the sub-race except in India, where Sanskrit survived as a seed-speech for future resurrection.  Then, perhaps pari passu with further westward expansion, Persian changed into the parent of the Slavonic group, itself living on as a seed-speech in Iran; and so on through all the groups; in each case the type-language of a group remaining, to expand again after the passage of ages and when its cycle should return, in or about its corresponding psychic center on the geographical plane.  Then this evolution, having reached its farthest limit, began to retrace its course; I would not attempt to say in what order the language groups come:  which is globe A in the chain, which Globe D, and so on; but merely suggest that a ‘family race’ may represent one round from Sanskrit to Sanskrit; and the whole Fifth Sub-race, seven such complete rounds.