"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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Isaac Taylor (priest)
Isaac Taylor (2 May 1829 – 18 October 1901), son of Isaac Taylor, was a philologist, toponymist, and Anglican canon of York (from 1885).
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