Rumania within her present frontiers is the outcome of this process of historical evolution, upon which is laid her very right to existence and is adjusting herself into one of the great elementary truths belonging to the general patrimony of thought.

Just when the childhood of this people began, the chroniclers do not say, nor is it known even where it had its cradle. We Rumanians are just as much a part of the very existence of things here, as are the crests of the Carpathians themselves and of which no one can say from where they come for the simple reason that they have always stood where they are now. It is true of course that there have been scientists, historians and philologists who have emited various theories concerning our