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The second answer is that which we receive from 

 the later ages. It relates the advent of more civilized 

 strangers, who taught the rude nations what they 

 themselves knew. Perhaps this is implied in the 

 story of the Peruvian Manco Capac, child of the sun. 

 The savage aborigines of Greece were visited by 

 Phoenician traders, and soon themselves learned to 

 voyage to the East and bring home its stores of know- 

 ledge. Our own Celtic aborigines were indebted first 

 to the Phoenician traders visiting the tin islands, next 

 to the intercourse with Gaul, and then to the Komans, 

 for their early lessons in civilization. The missionary 

 of new things may come as an invading soldier, or in 

 the guise of a trader, of a shipwrecked mariner, or 

 of a self-denying and laborious teacher ; but he must 

 come in order that humanity may awake from the 

 stagnation of semi-barbarism. These two answers are 

 mutually related. The primary stimulus must arise 

 from a God-given genius, or a heavenly baptism of the 

 life-giving Spirit, and when this is given it may pro- 

 pagate itself from nation to nation by human agency ; 

 but thus far the stagnant water of humanity has far 

 exceeded its living and fertilizing streams. 



More especially we see these principles in the 

 divergence of the two great Aryan or Japetic and 

 Semitic branches from the old Turanian stock. The 

 motto of the Japetic race has been enlargement and 

 dispersion, with the eager quest of things new and 

 strange. The Semitic motto has been to retain the 

 old landmarks and cultivate the old ground up to its 



