"How is it that as the speakers of the language traveled all their way from Europe to Asia and then finally settled in India, they were able to retain in India alone of all countries—their final destination which they must have reached after a course of several centuries—almost exactly the same accent on words which their European forefathers used to possess centu- ries before in their forest-home in Europe or their Asiatic fathers on the table-land of Asia away from India, but which their bretheren in different countries . . . could not preserve. . . . Nor can the Aryans be supposed to have traveled through an ethnic vacuum as they started their journey from Europe or outer-Asia and traveled across thousands of miles of land before they could reach India, and escaped the influence of alien speech habits on their language. . . . (on the contrary, it was] the Aryas in their journeyings in Europe and Asia outside India [who] could not avoid . . . [being] overwhelmingly swamped by foreign people. . . . thus the ethnic disturbances have disturbed the original Aryan [Indo-European] accent in Outer-Asia or Europe. . . . the continuity of the original Aryan accent in ancient India implies the unbroken geographical and ethnic continuity of the Aryan race from the most primitive times in India. . . . Thus the home of the primitive Aryan language can be located round the home of the Vedic speakers who possessed almost exactly the same word or sentence-accent as their Aryan [Indo-European] fathers did. (47-51)5"