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superstition than existed in previous ages before the birth of 

 Christianity. Their mind is not sufficiently evolved to grasp 

 its higher ideals (so to save them from the final loss of the 

 belief in One God, and to grant them a further chance of 

 progression in the course of the future), until they may some 

 day have a chance of intermingling with the Aryan races in 

 times yet to come, when some at least of them whose acts 

 may make them worthy of such a reward, may be ultimately 

 enabled to progress and so gain immortality, even if they 

 may never be permitted to attain to the highest stages of 

 wisdom and so merit the highest eternal reward. So we now 

 find Mahomet rising like a star in the East to assist their 

 salvation by offering them a lower order of religion than 

 Christianity, more suited to their lower mental development, 

 and for reasons previously stated, polygamy is for them still 

 the most perfect order of marriage. In the same manner their 

 lower order of mental development prevents them from being 

 able to comprehend the heaven and ideals that Christianity 

 has tried to place before them. So Mahomet is destined to 

 fill a void otherwise existing in the world's mental evolution 

 by creating a religion suitable to their understanding. 



Thus the Mahometan religion between 500 A.D. and 

 to-day spreads and embraces a large number of the non-Aryan 

 races that have risen above savagery, if not as high as the 

 Aryan races have in mental development. So do not 

 condemn the Turk or Asiatic because he is a Mahometan 

 or a polygamist. He may be just as moral and virtuous as you 

 yourself, only in a different manner ; but as he has been sub- 

 ject to a different series of evolutionary events your religious 

 food would be his poison, and his would disagree with you. 



You cannot undo the past ; you can only make the future 

 better. His past has made him and will decide his 

 future. Thank your stars that your past has been made under 

 more propitious circumstances, which have made it possible 

 for you to evolve a better future. We cannot help at the pre- 

 sent condemning the faults of cruelty shown in the present 

 war by the non- Aryan races. The Vandal blood will show up 

 in the German and in the Turk, who are nearly devoid of all 

 Aryan blood, so cannot feel the same sense of honour and 

 justice that appeals to us. I say, therefore, let these facts 

 make you realise the high obligations you are under to cherish 



