THE NEW ORDER 



of human conception. Let us imagine 

 our descendants three or four hundred 

 years hence looking back on the spir- 

 itual and intellectual history of man; 

 with larger perspective they will sepa- 

 rate these two grand thought move- 

 ments. 



First, the Oriental movement, 

 marked by Oriental lack of curiosity 

 about natural law, a great moral and 

 spiritual movement developing three 

 thousand years before Christ along the 

 Nile, the Tigris, and Euphrates, out of 

 five thousand years of hard human ex- 

 perience, and expressed in Judea in the 

 faith that Nature is the continuous 

 handiwork of God, in a supreme stand- 

 ard of righteousness, the moral duty 

 being finally summed in the simple 

 phrase, "Thou shalt love thy neigh- 

 bor as thyself." This was the spir- 

 itual redemption of man, which left 



