104 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 

 let alone Charity, of which he has only a limited amount at 

 present in this twentieth century without the supernatural 

 assistance of God. 



Then after the days of Enos, which do not commence till 

 after the Metal Age or the end of the Stone Age, according to 

 the account given in Genesis, a second redeemer is born, but 

 this time amongst the Aryan Races, not the Mongolian Race, 

 and again we find the same words, thus :" Adam knew Eve, 

 who said I have gotten thee a son Seth in place of Abel whom 

 Cain slew ; and he had a son Enos who walked in the light of 

 God." This would correspond with the existence of Buddha 

 about twenty thousand years before Christ. Continuing this 

 course of inverse logic, which is the only method open to me 

 to follow out in elucidating prehistoric facts, and becomes the 

 only practical one I can adopt to fill in the missing spaces or 

 the missing links of evolution by arguing from effects back to 

 cause, instead of from cause to effect; for please remember, 

 dear reader, I do not put myself up for a really scientifically 

 informed man, I only lay claim to a mind capable of more 

 than ordinary logical deduction and extensive comprehension, 

 and if my ideas on the power of recalling past memories is 

 correct, the good luck to be descended from a long line of 

 statesmen and clergymen, whose past recollections may assist 

 me to arrive at correct conclusions and think with rapidity. 



I shall therefore in this way endeavour to take my reader 

 back in thought to the first day of the Epoch of Hope, the 

 Eighth Day, the Age of Comprehension, or the Stone Age, 

 and the Ninth Day, or the Metal Age, in which commences 

 the dawn or rather incarnation of Wisdom and Understanding. 

 In a very limited degree in the mind of man, when he, in the 

 days of ancient India, say, twenty to fifty thousand years B.C. 

 began to evolve his first idea of one God (for what I term 

 ancient Buddhism must have commenced in India at least 

 three to fifteen thousand years B.C.), and subsequently was 

 continued in Babylon, Assyria, and Egypt, when mankind had 

 already obtained a highly developed form of civilisation, Reli- 

 gion and Government (for this stage of evolution is contem- 

 porary with Government), which was, I take it, the first dawn 

 of human wisdom, for the power to rule is the dawn of wisdom, 

 just as with religion commenced the first dawn of comprehen- 

 sion or belief, which are twin developments of his mind. In 



