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this teaching and became essentially Christian, 

 although this race is psychologically the most 

 idolatrous of the world, as far as the aesthetic idol 

 not the common fetish is concerned. Let us 

 inquire into the cause of this remarkable fact. 



" As soon as the teaching of Christ was adopted by 

 those familiar with Aryan civilization and opinions, 

 an idea repugnant to Semitic conceptions, and still 

 unintelligible to that race, was evolved from it I 

 mean the idea that the human Christ, the Son of 

 God, was God himself. The Semite holds that God 

 is so far exalted above all creation, so great and 

 eternal in comparison with the littleness of the world 

 and of man, that God incarnate is not merely a 

 blasphemy but an unmeaning and absurd phrase. 

 Such a dogma was therefore energetically repudiated, 

 and the Semitic race submitted to persecution and 

 dispersal rather than accept it. This is the real 

 reason w r hy Christianity has not been received and 

 will never be received by the Semitic race. When 

 Mahomet reorganized and perfected the Arab creed, 

 he preserved intact the Semitic principle of the 

 absolute and incommunicable nature of God : the 

 Semitic religion has ever held that there is one God, 

 and his prophet. 



" On the other hand, Christianity was rapidly dif- 

 fused among the Greek and Latin peoples, and in all 

 parts of Europe inhabited by our race : even savages 

 and barbarians accepted more or less frankly a 



