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has been left behind by civilisation of later growth may be 

 accounted for by the legislation of Confucius, but I am of 

 opinion that a far more powerful reason why she has not 

 further advanced was that not having had to face the struggles 

 of the Glacial period, she did not evolve the high ideals of 

 God and His Trinity which had and ever will have more to 

 do with producing the highest order of mental ability, and 

 thus fitting the nations who have so evolved, or unfitting 

 every nation that has not evolved these truths or that have 

 not been redeemed to compete with those so blessed. 



It is probable that both these causes have had some 

 effect in this direction, for we find that from the time 

 that Mahomet legislated to prevent any alteration in the 

 teachings of the Koran, the Mahometan is less progressive 

 than the believers in religions which permit of progressive 

 alteration in their tenets to allow of their being adjusted to 

 suit the onward march of civilisation. Thus although 

 Mahomet extended the belief in one God and one God only at 

 the time we find that Christianity was fast plunging the 

 Eastern nations who had not been redeemed back into idolatry, 

 owing to the fact that the lack of Aryan blood in their veins 

 made them incapable of evolving a mind of sufficiently high 

 calibre to comprehend, or believe, much less to be able to 

 understand the mystery of God and His Trinity, and so were 

 unable to rise to the height of practising and realising the high 

 ideals of Christianity. Nevertheless, we must give Mahomet 

 credit for drawing out of the mud of idolatry ten souls for 

 every one that Christ has redeemed even if this was attained 

 at the cost of retarding their mental development, but it is 

 hard to estimate how far their breeding and the influence of 

 their past struggles, failures and successes to combat against 

 lesser or greater odds of resistance in the course of evolution 

 may not have also effected these results. It is well to 

 bear in mind that the beliefs which we may hold and which 

 may be the best suited to advance and fit us for our own 

 particular state of life, or the calls our social state or racial 

 difference may most call for ; may be unsuited to the 

 breeding and surroundings of others, so that the different 

 races and nations require different forms of belief and govern- 

 ment to evolve the characteristics that their past evolution 

 makes the necessary outcome of their progression under the 



