ioo THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



tion of a higher and more generous type which tends to create 

 a greater amount of emulation, unity, and self-reliance. This 

 resulted in a form of hero worship which led to a greater 

 esteem for individual superiority and tribal unity and sacrifice 

 for the public good, and, as their occupation as flock-owners 

 taught them the value of heredity, they came to evolve a 

 belief in Caste, social superiority, hero worship, and honour to 

 the victor, obedience to a chief or leader, little regard for wealth 

 in the form of personal belongings that were not of a portable 

 nature ; so that their nomadic life evolved higher principles of 

 honour, justice and mercy than were evolved by their more 

 southern brethren, the Mongolian races. So throughout this 

 Epoch of Hope I will endeavour to take my reader in the next 

 chapter through the course of these two systems of evolution 

 which have laid the foundation-stone of our present civilisation, 

 the details of which are outlined in the biblical account of the 

 children of Adam to the time of Noah, which marks or cor- 

 responds to the end of the Glacial Period of Geology. 



