214 THE THRESHOLD OF EVOLUTION 



So we find that neither Comprehension nor Invention are cap- 

 able of being evolved by the Mongolian races, except in a very 

 limited degree, hence they have not advanced beyond the state 

 of civilisation that was developed somewhere between ten to 

 twenty thousand years B.C. in Comprehension, Belief, Inven- 

 tion or Knowledge of the truths of revelation, so remain for 

 ever after at a state of semi-civilisation, until they become 

 crossed with the Aryan or Indo-Caucasian races, albeit they 

 had ten or twenty thousand years' start of the latter in civilisa- 

 tion. " But/' continues The Historians' History, " the early 

 ancient history of China, which can be drawn only from native 

 sources, is obscure, untrustworthy, and imperfect. The 

 Chinese lack all sense of historical values/' 



If the reader will throw his memory back to what I have 

 already illustrated when I showed that fear of what man could 

 not understand or realise in nature created the early forms 

 of religion, study and governments, he will find it easy to 

 realise that the tendency towards superstition and necromancy 

 was the force that gave birth to all these three results, and 

 that it is impossible that born and reared in such an atmos- 

 phere, knowledge, science, religion and early history should 

 have any more perfect childhood than superstitious fables, 

 parables and bigotry. Nevertheless, it is probable that the 

 knowledge and study of this age, somewhere between twenty 

 and forty thousand years B.C., caused China to give birth to 

 the earliest forms of agriculture, religion and manufacture, 

 and such early forms of civilisation or control (for " Civilisa- 

 tion " is but a word we use to express life conducted under 

 conditions of self-control, self-sacrifice and order, so as to re- 

 duce the liberty of the individual, and permit of the freedom of 

 the community). 



It is probable that between twenty and ten thousand 

 B.C., civilisation called for the creation and evolution of 

 Government to restrain the unrestricted liberty of savagery, 

 that the earliest forms of religion were unable to restrain, 

 so the reader will now see that my Tables of Trinity are quite 

 right in placing Government as the next subsequent evolution 

 to that of Study and Religion, after which we find that the 

 control and order so evolved by these early forms of govern- 

 ment permit of the creation, in their elementary forms 

 of towns, trade and manufacture. This, in its turn, sends up 



