THE DECLINE OF MEN AND RACES 251 



Here, too, the Divine Books offer the only ex 

 planation that can satisfy the human mind. It 

 matters not how much in our modern seances is 

 merely trickery or deceit, as is commonly claimed, 

 or, how much more must be attributed to telepathy 

 and other psychic phenomena, the one pertinent 

 fact that needs to be stressed is that men do be 

 lieve they are practising necromancy, and this, 

 from an anthropological point of view places 

 them, in that regard at least, on a level with the 

 decadent state of savagery. 



No serious student of history can question the 

 fact that there has been a constant devolution as 

 well as evolution. Ancient Egypt, when it rises 

 into notice at the misty dawn of history, is said by 

 historians to have even then begun its decline. 

 This refers in particular to a far greater purity 

 of religious worship to which its earliest monu 

 ments point. As Correa Moylan Walsh, in the 

 first of his volumes, written from a strongly ma 

 terialistic point of view, says: &quot;Of the very 

 earliest peoples that have risen to a high culture, 

 our knowledge, though unsatisfactory, is indeed 

 mostly of their declining and low stationary 

 periods. * 3 



Even the so-called &quot;primitive&quot; races of today 

 that are thought though this cannot be proved, 

 and in view of the Flood cannot be held to 

 have come down but slightly changed from the 



8 &quot;The Climax of Civilization,&quot; p. 90. 



