142 SHEMITIC CIVILIZATION. 



is the decided victory of Europe, it is the 

 accomplishment of the old Shemitic saying : 

 " God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall 

 dwell in the tents of Shem, and Canaan shall 

 be his servant." 1 



Until that period, Shemitism was master 

 on its own ground. The Mussulman East 

 surpassed the West, had better armies, and 

 a better policy, and supplied the latter with 

 wealth, learning, and civilization. Now 

 their respective parts are changed. Euro- 

 pean genius has been developing itself with 

 incomparable grandeur ; Islamism, on the 

 contrary, has been as slowly crumbling 

 away ; in our times it is falling with a crash. 

 In the present day, the one essential con- 

 dition for the expansion of European civili- 

 zation is the destruction of the principle 

 of Shemitic action (chose) the destruction 

 of the theocratic power of Islamism, and 

 consequently the destruction of Islamism it- 

 self; for Islamism can only exist as an 

 official religion : reduce it to the position of 



1 Genesis ix. 27. 



