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'formative period, it is, I think, important to recognize the eleme 

 work in the process. The h. West ireretc be leah ' : .i~;. 



a new religion ; more than this, the barbarian mu-: .< iued ; * 



garage conqueror from beyond the Alps must be trained. :^as been 



said, it would prove far more difficult to ad philosophies a. 



old religions to the new faith than to convert a 

 fresh peop , but ju _ to self -consciousness, a 



whose vigor would furnish material for the world's progress. When 

 we consider the magnitude of the pr .. we shall not wonder that 



the day was long in dawning ; we shall not wonder that Christian 

 went astray from the path whose dire it contained within itself. 



Throughout the entire middi _ riod Christianity was ur 

 assimilate, organize the heritage of cl al thought. T - \ emed ne- 



ry that Christianity should, pre fcence a rmas agai 



Grecian philosophy and Oriental mystic: ig it rre ail human 



things, bv fixincr the eve on heaven. 



At this time, when the treasures of the world- learning seem 

 evond re . I le cry s in heard. ' ; E 



of the most brilliant and ending phenomena of human history now 



eared Arabian cult*: 



It has been said, and per:. o often of late, that what we regard 



as the deeper differences of our fellows correspond to the broad divis- 

 ions of the earth. K ices and pie tial themselves accord- 

 ing to climate and territory. This is taken as a clew to the r 

 definition of a people viz., ;, a totality of individuals in the mass of 

 humanitv,'* a totalitv conditioned bv the land to which thev belong a 

 by the stage of development on which they enter. It is important to 

 remark the word conditioned. The di-tin^ulshinor characteristics of a 

 people do not come entirely from without. The - netbing m 

 than clima! 1 environment. Thifl maj perl y be called the ra - 

 type, which, like the primal institution of the ir 

 created I ;tion : dependent on land and climate for expression, 

 it unfolds after its own kind. The impress of the original type 

 found wherever the develops. enf hai n sufficient. y iivanced to 

 bri: _ it the varied parts of our nature. By this is not meant that 

 each people accomplishes something distinctive in religion and gov- 

 ernment. morals, science, and art. 



Our meaning rather is that the mark of each people i inly vis- 



ible on all these mani: - ions. The statement is just that each peo- 

 ple is an ii hial within the race, and that it will show the working 

 of three forces original itution, climatic condition, influence from 

 adjacent nations. 



Our examination of any national movement C3n not deserve ap- 

 proval unless the idea of development control the investigation. We 

 are above beinsr satisfied bv facts alone. Historv is alive. It is no 

 longer enough to know that at such a time the Arabia- nquered 



