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the past, the more you will see how this comes
definitely out. You see how Varna is really the
correct word; how the colour represented in each
caste the characteristics of the descent of each caste :
the priestly, who were learned, pure Aryans; the
fighters, coming from the Aryans and Toltecs; the
traders coming from the Aryans and Mongols; the
servants coming from the aborigines. This is the
historical view, while the other that I was putting is
the view based on fundamental facts in nature.
If you will take the trouble to go into that fully, as
you may, with the help of the many ethnological
treatises and others, that will enable you to judge,
you will see that the establishment of these Varnas
was a measure of self-preservation, necessary to keep
the people of purer blood from such numerous inter-
marriages as would have swamped them entirely,
and led to their disappearance in those early days;
necessary, in order that the Aryan type might persist
and dominate; in order that the partial mixture,
having occurred, might not be lost, swamped by
numbers, but might be preserved with the enormous
value that they had gained by bringing over from the
past great types all that was necessary for the full
development of the Aryan people. Then went out
the command that the three castes might not inter-
marry outside their own borders, so that the types
might be definitely established, and the great Hindu
polity built up on that basis of caste, growing out of
the past, the more you will see how this comes
definitely out. You see how Varna is really the
correct word; how the colour represented in each
caste the characteristics of the descent of each caste :
the priestly, who were learned, pure Aryans; the
fighters, coming from the Aryans and Toltecs; the
traders coming from the Aryans and Mongols; the
servants coming from the aborigines. This is the
historical view, while the other that I was putting is
the view based on fundamental facts in nature.
If you will take the trouble to go into that fully, as
you may, with the help of the many ethnological
treatises and others, that will enable you to judge,
you will see that the establishment of these Varnas
was a measure of self-preservation, necessary to keep
the people of purer blood from such numerous inter-
marriages as would have swamped them entirely,
and led to their disappearance in those early days;
necessary, in order that the Aryan type might persist
and dominate; in order that the partial mixture,
having occurred, might not be lost, swamped by
numbers, but might be preserved with the enormous
value that they had gained by bringing over from the
past great types all that was necessary for the full
development of the Aryan people. Then went out
the command that the three castes might not inter-
marry outside their own borders, so that the types
might be definitely established, and the great Hindu
polity built up on that basis of caste, growing out of