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a petition signed by the united and unanimous clamour of the 

 voices of all semi-civilised nations for murderous armies to 

 protect the products of their labour from still more murderous 

 armies of savage robbers, a duty the mighty Chinese Wall 

 attempted to do, but failed to perform. At the same time 

 superstition and bigotry united to create religious forms ot 

 society powerful enough and clever enough to put the " fear 

 of God or idol " into the heart of these rogues and thieves, to 

 do which the religious teachers of early civilisation started 

 to create a hell of dreadful imaginations (for do not forget, 

 that at this age of creation Imagination is the only 

 faculty of his soul that man has yet evolved. He is only 

 starting to conceive Comprehension which will not be born till 

 after the coming of Christ or conceived till the birth of the 

 original Buddha, probably between ten and twenty thousand 

 years B.C.), frightful' enough, no matter how imaginary, to 

 deter theft and petty larceny and the abuse of liberty by those 

 who are yet too uncivilised to control their acts sufficiently to 

 comply with the demands of primitive society. Hence from 

 this point until the Fifteenth Day of Peace and the Sixteenth 

 Day of Use and the Seventeenth Day of the Prevention ot 

 Crime have been accomplished, we find that war, bigotry and 

 strife are the triumphal music to the rhythm of which the world 

 will have to march and dance. 



I now pass on to the latter prehistoric days of early India, 

 Tibet, Southern Siberia, Persia and Egypt in which this 

 contest is now to be carried on on a grander scale, as the Aryan 

 races contend with their more civilised neighbours of Mongo- 

 lian origin as to which of the two has the higher ideal of 

 civilisation, and so combine their higher ideals of Control, 

 Justice, Truth and Honour, which represent the Aryan or 

 better half of social evolution with the properties of Skill, 

 Perseverance, Cunning and Greed, which the more advanced, 

 -but less moral Mongolian civilisation has evolved. The 

 records of these times are but little better known to us than 

 those of early Mongolian history, for God in His wisdom saw 

 that until mankind became possessed of a two-thirds portion 

 of the trinity of the human soul, which is the faculty of Com- 

 prehension, too much knowledge of the past could teach man- 

 kind nothing of value, and would retard new and fresh, but at 

 the same time contradictory, evolutions of half-realised forms 



