CHAPTER X.

MONGOLS--HISTORICAL NOTES.

Early history of Huns--Wars with China--Dispersion--Appear in Europe--Attila--His career--And death--Turks--Mixture of races--Consanguinity of Huns and Mongols--Genghis--His conquests--Divisions of his empire--Timour--A Mahommedan-- His wars--And cruelties--Baber--The Great Mogul in India-- Dispersion of tribes--Modern divisions of the Mongols-- Warlike habits--Religions--The causes of their success in war considered--Their heroes--Their characters--And military talents--Superstition--Use of omens-- Destructiveness and butcheries of the Huns and Mongols-- Antagonistic traits of character--Depraved moral instincts--Necessity of culture to develop human feelings--Flesh-eating not brutalising--Dehumanising tendency of war--Military qualities of pastoral peoples-- Dormant enthusiasm of the Mongols 166