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account for a separate and later origin to their civilisation. 

 Hence it is probable that to China we owe the dawn of agricul- 

 ture and the early forms of civilisation, and the great Chinese 

 wall shows how much the advance of early civilisation had 

 progressed and how it tried to fence out savagery. 



Contemporaneously with this the Aryan Races were evolving 

 higher codes of morality. Now, the result of civilisation is 

 always to produce a love of ease and a distaste for work, to a 

 very great extent because town and agricultural civilisation 

 necessitate not so much extreme exertion as very continuous 

 and methodical efforts, which are more tiring and exhausting 

 and distasteful than more violent exertion with intermittent 

 rest. Then, when rest and ease are at length attained, the 

 possessors become idle and indolent and are disinclined to any 

 excessive exhibitions of spasmodic or superlative energy as 

 the reactionary demand for rest from their labours sets in. 



On the one hand the Mongolian civilisation, which gave 

 rise to agriculture, cities, arts and manufacture, greed, 

 dishonesty, business cunning and acumen, is morally a lower 

 order of civilisation and an inferior course of education in 

 fitness and energy, vitality and brain power. Nevertheless, 

 it produces a much higher development of culture, art and 

 skill than a pastoral and nomadic existence ; but this is pur- 

 chased at the heavy price of a false moral standard and a 

 selfish form of democratic government, ever inclined to sacrifice 

 the public good on the altar of selfish love of power and the 

 Almighty Dollar. So in reality the huntsman and shepherd, 

 who are represented by the less cultured and less enlightened 

 but higher principled Aryan Races, whose life and closer 

 intercourse with nature put them more in touch with the 

 truths of revelation ; and, when all is said and done, as my 

 hypothesis points out, there is only a distinction not a differ- 

 ence between God and Nature. So it is not to be wondered at 

 that to the ruder civilisation of the huntsman and shepherd 

 we owe the ethics of morality and education and principles of 

 just and honourable government, and the hereditary principles 

 which go to make up the vital strength of a nation. 



Art, science, and ingenuity only tend to feed the fires 

 of luxury, indolence, folly, extravagance, waste, at the same 

 time as they evolve genius and artistic variation and improve 

 our environments and surroundings. So we find through the 



