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days with which I am now dealing the days of Science and 

 Commerce represent the first practical evolution of Know- 

 ledge and Wisdom, in the course of the evolution of the mind 

 and soul of mankind. And what, I ask you, would have been 

 the good of perpetuating the histories of the follies of mankind 

 if they did not point and could not lead him to the perform- 

 ance of greater virtue? So we find that God did not create 

 writing or history till about five thousand years before Christ 

 because it was not till then man began to succeed in turning 

 sin into virtue by placing practical utility before abuse, so 

 that anything but the barest sprinkling of the knowledge of 

 creation previous to that would have done more to retard than 

 to advance evolution as the superior volume of past errors 

 would have submerged the infancy of wisdom. 



All we can do with regard to history previous to 1000 

 B.C. is to glean what probably were the causes of the result that 

 history makes known to us, and so arrive at the most probable 

 course of events. It is possible to realise what a few of 

 these causes may have been and to comprehend what they may 

 have produced, although we cannot absolutely prove that some- 

 where about twenty to ten thousand years before Christ, some 

 previous evolution of the early forms of religions and govern- 

 ments must have formulated certain forms of belief and control, 

 otherwise the early forms of the governments of nations could 

 not have developed to the stage in their existence in the first 

 days of history ; nor could they ever have sprung into exist- 

 ence in so advanced a form of civilisation as they had attained 

 previous to the dawn of history. Hence we can readily compre- 

 hend that somewhere about this time, as a result of the inter- 

 mingling of the two races, there came into the Mongolian 

 races, with their higher standard of skilful civilisation, some 

 of the Aryan races with an evolution of a higher form, 

 of moral civilisation, the result of patriarchal life. These men 

 Herodotus describes as the men " who ride and shoot and 

 speak the truth." This latter quality is highly expressive of 

 their higher moral integrity, and that to those races, so inter- 

 mingling, was granted a second redeemer, which redemption 

 permitted of the evolution by mankind of the attribute of his 

 soul of Comprehension and so advanced these crossed races 

 to a higher standard of civilisation, and of Honour, Justice 

 and Mercy, just as Imagination had produced Agriculture and 



