Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Race Life of the Aryan Peoples is a book written by Joseph Pomeroy Widney, published in New York by Funk & Wagnells in 1907, of the history of the Aryan race, the word used in the late 19th and early 20th century to denote what are today more usually termed the Indo-European peoples, i.e., those ethnic groups that are the present-day descendents of the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European. At the time the book was published, the Aryan race was generally regarded as one of the three major branches of the Caucasian race, along with the Semitic race and the Hamitic race.