THE KINGDOM OF MAN 



around the barriers of desert and mountain to Western 

 Asia, Europe, and North Africa. These emigrants were 

 the true adventurers, hardy, progressive, and energetic ; 

 and their descendants have developed into the strongest 

 and most vigorous of the human family. The less pro- 

 gressive of them remain still on the further side of the 

 mountains of Western Asia. The three passage-ways 

 used by the original emigrants seem to have been (1) the 

 Red Sea Nile- Valley path, in which the dusky white and 

 the Ethiopian races mingled ; (2) the Euphrates Valley, 

 down which the Semitic races moved ; and (3) the tracts 

 of the more northerly plateau, across which moved the 

 ancestral Aryan races. It is also quite certain that some 

 races moved backwards by this route and returned to India 

 to give rise to the Brahmins, the most learned race of that 

 country. 



We have thus traced, so far as our limited knowledge 

 will allow us, the geographical spread of man's dominance. 

 But we cannot associate him with the history that in 

 previous chapters we have roughly traced, of the develop- 

 ment of the lower members of the animal kingdom. The 

 qualities which have developed in Man are of such an 

 unprecedented power and so far dominate everything else 

 in his characteristics and surroundings that they justify 

 the view that he forms a new departure in the gradual 

 unfolding of this world's predestined scheme. Knowledge, 

 Reason, Self-consciousness, Will, are the attributes of Man. 

 He goes on from strength to strength, and in the Divine 

 purpose which created him may lie the possibility that in 

 the future he may attain a fuller knowledge than any he 



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