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land beyond the Caspian. These people came into 

 what is now Europe and settled there long before 

 written history. And from them all of the mod- 

 ern European peoples have come. So you see we 

 have all branched from the same tribe if we go 

 back far enough. 



4. The Cradle of Mankind. 



But where did these original white people come 

 from? And where did the dark peoples come 

 from? And the Chinese? And the Indians? 

 Where was the cradle of the human species? In 

 what part of the world and at what time did man 

 originate as a new and distinct species of animal? 

 This must have occurred at some certain place on 

 the earth and at some definite period in time. 



It is pretty certain that the human species did 

 not originate in what is called the western half 

 of the earth and spread from there as a center 

 over the world. For reasons, the most of which I 

 cannot give you, because it would take too long 

 to make them plain, it is believed by scientists that 

 the cradle of mankind was somewhere in the east- 

 ern hemisphere. 



One reason for this belief is that it is here that 

 we find the oldest tracks of man, the earliest evi- 

 dence of his existence in the world. ^Ye can go 

 back into the civilizations of the Nile and of 

 the Euphrates and of some of the rivers of India 

 for thousands of years, in some places 8,000 or 

 10,000 years. Here we find one civilization on 



