102 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 

 these details, but the reader will gather, when he reads the 

 next chapter on the Evolution of Religion, that the custom of 

 offering sacrifices to a deity was most probably a subsequent 

 development of the latter part of the age now under discussion, 

 so it is presumable that when we read that God accepted the 

 offering of Abel and rejected that of Cain, we are meant to 

 understand that although God permitted the Mongolian Race 

 to outstrip for a time the Aryan Race, the heart of Cain was 

 more selfish, his love of wealth was greater, his habits of 

 moral rectitude less exact, and his ideals were of a lower order 

 of virtue than those of his Aryan brother, Abel, who, although 

 he took longer to evolve habits of law, order and religion, by 

 his life of greater excitement, higher energy and stronger 

 habits of self-denial, evolved a higher order both of body and 

 mind, and so found favour in the sight of God, and vas there- 

 fore able to outstrip and conquer his more advanced brother. 

 When some two hundred thousand years later driven 

 back by the Glacial Period, he had evolved higher forms of 

 virtue, of thought, of religion and of government, so was 

 destined to supersede his brother Cain, who was still buried 

 in Chinese materialism and idolatry, and had not yet conceived 

 a belief in a life to come or an immortal existence, when the 

 Aryan Races had evolved a belief in one God, the Supreme 

 Ruler, if not yet in His Trinity. All these facts made the 

 Aryan Races the fittest of mankind and destined to become 

 for ever afterwards the leading races of creation as the 

 northern children of Abel swept down on their more civilized 

 brethren. Now it appears to me that somewhere in this Stone 

 Age comes the first dawn of religion, and if my hypothesis 

 and the deductions taken from what experience has shown me 

 to be the rules of stud-breeding are correct, it then follows that 

 every one of the attributes of God the Mother to be transmis- 

 sible by mankind from one generation to another on the male 

 side, it was necessary that there should be a redeemer or God- 

 made man for each of the three attributes of God the Mother 

 namely, Love, Comprehension and Invention, to produce 

 Civilisation, and so enable man to outstrip the animal king- 

 dom, would henceforth require to be transmissible from the 

 male as well as from the female side, and, had this not taken 

 place, woman alone could not have evolved family unity, love, 

 sympathy, comprehension, justice, and invention. It appears 



