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the country wich is now called Sweden was not at all inhabited. We Swedes
possess a country which neither we, nor our forefathers, have taken from any
other race. We Swe*
des have ourselves
»made» our country,
have cultivated the
land and made the
roads. We have thus
an unusually good
»title» af our land.

Celts, Germans,
and Slavs, with many
other peoples in Euro=
pe speak, as do Per*
sians and Hindoos,
languages which are
related, and which
form the great Indo*
European, or — as it
is also called, though
not so correctly, — the
Indo*Germanic family
of languages. All these
peoples are supposed
not only to speak
languages which have
their origin in the same
root, but also to have
themselves a common
origin.

Some scholars

have supposed that the home of the Indo*Europeans was to be found in the
countries round the Southern Baltic.

My opinion is however, that this supposition can not be correct.

Fig. 1. The country of the Teutons 2,000 years B. C., (shown by the dotted portions). The districts (Finland, the Baltic provinces belonging to Russia, and the country round the Vistula, etc.), to which the Teutons had already migrated during the stone age, are not given on the map.

Here in the Scandinavian North, we have the home of the Teutonic race, but
not that of the IndoÆuropeans. All that I know of the remote ages, when the
Indo*Europeans left their native land to spread over the earth, has convinced me
that we cannot take upon ourselves the honour of our country being the cradle
of the IndoÆuropean race.

It is honour enough that the Teutons became Teutons in our country: a race
who has inscribed its name on many pages of the history of civilisation, and
who — I hope — will, even in the future, have a great mission in the mutual
work of furthering the wellfare of Mankind.

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