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Nevertheless, we are not justified in assuming that as an entire 

 product it is to any large extent free from conformity to the 

 natural laws, which are as much laws of God in reality as those 

 of divine inspiration ; the difference alone lies in the manner 

 of their transmittance. It is therefore nothing short of bigoted 

 intolerance for religion to claim infallibility in its detailed 

 teaching; its dogmas of revelation alone are infallible, as are 

 the laws of God and Nature. But its teachings are but the 

 growth of the enlargement of man's mind during the process 

 of his evolution, and must therefore conform with the laws of 

 God and Nature and be as much subject to error, and conse- 

 quently to correction, as any other development of evolution 

 as are the teachings of science or state or social laws. 



For are not they the product of Nature and Man, and 

 equally conform to Nature's laws of variation, as must all other 

 forms of evolution. So the Mongolian Races, not having 

 evolved a sufficient amount of energy and stamina to evolve 

 religion to a belief in God or to evolve any of the earliest forms 

 of law and civilisation, are now condemned by the unalterable 

 law of the survival of the fittest through loss of energy to stop 

 short on the road of evolution and make room for the more 

 energetic Aryan Race, and are therefore doomed to advance 

 no further, as are all those who, by loss of energy (the greatest 

 of all virtues except the Trinity of Mercy, Justice and Charity, 

 which are to be the conditions of Immortality, but which are 

 the last of all evolutions to become complete), so fall short in 

 the scheme of God's plan of evolution and lose their right to 

 advance as have the animals before them. 



I must leave such detail as this, or the reader will 

 lose sight of the sequence of my Hypothesis before he is able 

 to realise its importance. As I have already stated, the Age 

 of Agriculture of necessity gives rise to a desire for the study 

 of how to produce better forms of agriculture and a knowledge 

 of how to forecast weather changes. This leads to supersti- 

 tious worship and religion rather than to laws and order, and 

 evolved more cunning in arts of clever deceit than truth or 

 honour. Hence when the Northern or Aryan Races were 

 driven by the cold and descended upon the Southern, and civi- 

 lisation of Asia, some twenty or tfiirty thousand years B.C., 

 as did the Huns and Goths later on upon the civilisation of 

 Europe, Greece and Rome one thousand years A.D. These 



