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 of Egypt about eighteen hundred years before Christ, to be 

 followed by the Mosaic tribe who had remained in Assyria and 

 who subsequently, about one thousand years later, conquered 

 the Hebrews. It is probable that the Dorian emigration which 

 spread to Greece, and a prehistoric settlement in Italy were 

 other branches of this same emigration that travelled further 

 to the north, via the Caucasian mountains through the South 

 of Russia to Greece and Rome, and so left their stamp on the 

 development of Grecian and Roman knowledge and character, 

 yet were not sufficiently numerous to enforce their religious 

 beliefs and national characteristics on these countries, but 

 left the mark of their superior energy, brains and intellect, 

 to further the civilisation of southern Europe prior to Grecian 

 and Roman historic times. 



It is most probable that these missionaries of Hindoo cult 

 were supplanted in India by some religious reformation, the 

 outcome of some prehistoric struggle between government 

 and religion which led to the creation in a more degenerate 

 form of the Veda of modern Buddhism which culminated in the 

 teachings of Prince Gautama, when the burning question 

 presumably was that of the immortality of the soul and the 

 eternal existence of soul in man versus no soul, and a sepa- 

 rate creation of man and animal life, and a series of rebirths 

 of the human life as a bodily existence. It marks the reli- 

 gious contest that underlies all the historical evidences of 

 that period, and which most probably began to so stink in the 

 nostrils of all India till public opinion revolted and formed 

 a materialistic new religion in modern Buddhism, and so 

 stopped the further advancement of religion in India because 

 it lost the teaching of God's Trinity. This is the evil that 

 modern savants, particularly German, are in danger of again 

 repeating, and it is the current that underlies the present 

 European War, where we see ranged on one side the half- 

 Aryan Races, who are represented by the Allied Forces, 

 fighting for Chivalry, Justice and Religion, and on the other 

 side the materialistic doctrine of the non-existence of soul, 

 the power of might over right, and the materialistic doctrine 

 that scientific knowledge is superior to divine revelation, 

 which German philosophy has been forcing on the world. It 

 must be admitted that it is the duty of future science to 

 ruthlessly tear down all the curtains of superstition and 



