Note 378 — Chapter VI · THE PROTO-SIDERIC OR EARLY IRON AGE OF WEAPONS.

Mr. Day (quoting Fergusson’s Illustrations of Ancient Architecture in Hindostan, London, 1848) cautions his readers that ‘Mr. Fergusson’s dates are not to be relied on, however important his writings unquestionably are in other respects’ (p. 168). Here again we see the misleading influence of the Sanskritists, who have allowed themselves to be cozened by the ‘mild Hindu.’ Mr. Day inclines (p. 151) to the tenth century b.c. (!), when the peoples of India were, we have reason to believe, the merest savages.