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resistance, so evolve Imagination rather than his Com- 

 prehension (the latter, mark you, is the higher evolution of 

 the two). He devotes his thumbs and brains to the construction 

 of spades and ploughs of wood rather than to weapons of 

 stone, and delegates to asses and cattle, or beasts of burden, 

 the bulk of his labours ; utilising his Imagination rather 

 than his Comprehension, and becoming a husbandman rather 

 than a shepherd. He now commences the rudimentary form of 

 civilisation by permanently pitching his camp in some fertile 

 valley by some murmuring brook, and thus arise the primitive 

 villages, cities and states that are to make the early civilisa- 

 tions of the Stone Age. Growing in wealth thereby, the 

 mighty colonisation of the East extends even to the fertile 

 shores of the Mediterranean. But the Mongolian is less in- 

 clined to develop habits of energy and perfection of constitu- 

 tion, physique, order, government and family unity than the 

 more warlike followers of the chase. Like all races who 

 lose their energy by luxury, they become cursed by "Heaven's 

 decree/' and so lose their powers of further advancement; so 

 we find that, somewhere about twenty thousand years B.C.. 

 The northern races start to descend upon their southern 

 brethren, whose wealth and luxury have destroyed their energy, 

 and, although they do not advance its arts ; they add to it 

 higher forms of government, moral rectitude and greater 

 security in the tenure of property and in commercial enter- 

 prise. 



Although we have no definite historical account of these 

 inroads, they are corroborated by the steps in the stairway 

 of evolution, and the following verse of Genesis, which would 

 chronologically fit in with the Aryan advent into India and 

 the foundation of the earliest forms of Buddhist and Brahmin 

 theology, which gave rise to the belief in God and His 

 Trinity : " Lemech took to himself two wives " (see Genesis, 

 verse 19, chapter iv.), that is two races of mankind, " Ada and 

 Sella, and Ada begat Jabel and such as live in tents and are 

 herdsmen." This I take to mean that metal weapons were 

 the result of the nomadic races who now intermingle with (or 

 marry) the civilised Mongolian Race. The hunter and the 

 shepherd were not of the civilised children of Cain, but the 

 children of Abel, who now intermingle with or marry the 

 children of Lemech and Tubal Cain, who are the personification 



