Excerpt from The Slavs
It has been observed that the place of the Slavonic nations in history bears a very small proportion to the space occupied by them on the surface of the globe. They belong to the great Aryan or Indo-European family, and of all its tribes they were almost the last to fall within the focus of historic light. "Their domicile was so remote from the centres of ancient culture, that the Greeks and Romans could scarcely come into direct contact with them; and having always been, as they are still, by nature a peaceable people, they themselves never greatly interfered in the affairs of their borderlands."
Nevertheless, although until the 6th century these races are unnoticed in the records of Byzantium and of Western Europe, some knowledge of them can be traced back even to the days of Herodotus.
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