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solution is the countercharge, which every material aggregate evolved, sooner 
or later undergoes. Evolution and dissolution bring to us ever changing, but 
eternally advancing forms, in their cycles of transformation. 
The establishment of a race may be possible from a single pair, of strongly 
marked distinctive characteristics, whose descendants have continually inter- 
married. Hebrew patriarchs founded nations, and nations thus springing 
from a single man of pronounced character, whose descendants remained 
united and isolated, have often developed strong and peculiar personal char- 
acteristics, which have pervaded and stamped themselves upon the race thus 
descended. Mixed or cosmopolitan races, never possess uniform characteris- 
tics as clearly defined. 
It seems more reasonable to infer, that a fleet from the neighborhood of 
Peru may have reached China with the first emigration, perhaps bearing a 
hero-sovereign and an invading army, which, once landed, found China 
agreeable, and, being unable to return against those perpetual winds which 
brought them so swiftly, were compelled to establish themselves in new ter- 
ritory. 
Writers on Central America have expressed a decided opinion, that the 
peculiar character of its ancient civilization, manners, customs, and general 
structure of the ancient language, point very strongly to a common origin 
between the Indo-Chinese nations of Eastern Asia and the ancient civilization 
of America, which appears, in some remarkable particulars, to have heen of 
an Egyptian cast. The Coptic or ancient Egyptian language, however, 
-seems to have been monosyllabic. Hieroglyphic writing is of three kinds: 
figurative, symbolical and phonetic. Hubert H. Bancroft, in his Native Races 
of the Pacific States, Vol. V, f. 39, says: ‘‘ Analogies have been or thought 
to exist between the languages of several of the American tribes and that of 
the Chinese. But itis to Mexico, Central America, and, as we shall hereafter 
see, to Peru, that we must look for these linguistic affinities, and not to the 
northwestern coasis [of America], where we should naturally expect to find 
them most evident.’’ Count Stolberg, quoted by Humboldt, is of the opinion 
that the Peruvian cult is that of Vishnu—one of the Brahmin trinity—when 
he appears in the form of Krishna, or the Sun. 
Mexican kings, who reigned previous to the Spanish conquest, all added 
Tzin to their names as a reverential affix. It resembles in sound a dynasty 
of China—the Tsin dynasty—which reigned from B. C. 249 to B. C. 205. 
Tai Ko Foki, the Great Stranger King of China B. C. 3588, or later Hoang 
Tai, may have landed from such a fleet, and been called by conquest, or 
through the reverence of superior knowledge, to reign over them. The 
descendants of these early settlers may have remained clannish, keeping 
apart, as an entirely distinctive race, from the Miauts or original aborigines, 
naturally following the customs of their forefathers, and thus have increased 
and grown into a mighty nation, unlike all people around them. 
During many centuries of growth, China, like Japan and Corea, became 
a sealed empire, when no possible admixture of foreign blood could occur. 
It seems to have become an established habit with these nations to periodi- 
cally close their ports to foreign intercourse. Some similarities of race exist 
between some types of the Coreans and Japanese, while the Chinese are 
