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Taylor rejected the association between race and language altogether. He found the theory of a single Aryan migration out of Asia “extremely shadowy … [resting] on no solid grounds whatever” (1890: 17).

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Taylor I. 1890. The origin of the Aryans: an account of the prehistoric ethnology and civilization of Europe. New York: Scribner & Welford

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The whilom tyranny of the Sanskritists is happily overpast, and it is seen that hasty philological deductions require to be systematically checked by the conclusions of prehistoric archaeology, craniology, anthropology, geology, and common sense.

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