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By K.R. Howe

This publication is a crucial biography of a guy who performed a massive function within the founding of recent New Zealand. Tregear was once acclaimed as a world authority in Maori and Polynesian reports, and used to be additionally a poet, yet is better recognized for his 20 years because the first Secretary of Labor(1891-1912). in this interval and regardless of controversy, he was once accountable for one of the most complex hard work laws on the planet.

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The Maori in fact retained a pure ancestral Aryan tongue, 'the old speech as he received it on the plains east of the Caspian Sea'. A study of Maori pronunciation compared with that of other Pacific islands languages also gave Tregear clues as to the patterns and timing of the settlement of the Pacific islands. He believed that the Maori r, which elsewhere in the Pacific became I and d, and the Maori w, which elsewhere became v, and the appearance in some other Polynesian languages of s, meant that some later letters' somehow reached the Pacific islands.

2. That his language and traditions prove him to be the descendant of a pastoral people, afterwards warlike and migratory. 3. That his language has preserved, in an almost inconceivable purity, the speech of his Aryan forefathers, and compared with which the Greek and Latin tongues are mere corruptions. 4. , the actual sight of which has been lost to the Maori for centuries. Probably, 1. That he left India about four thousand years ago. 2. That he has been in New Zealand almost as long as that time.

Tregear argued that these texts had become the basis for Egyptian laws and religion, since the Egyptian was 'but an Asiatic immigrant into Africa', and which Moses handed on to the Jews. Tregear invited his readers to 'drink of the fount of Biblical anecdote at its source, comparing the Hebrew stories with the far more beautiful legends from which they sprang, and marking how corrupted and turbid the stream became ere it reached us through the Israelitish scriptures'. He concluded that Christianity certainly had not invented morality nor had a monopoly over it.

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