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the course of ages migrated west and south from the primitive commoo ^ 
of the civilizing stock in Central Asia, with an unceasing tendency lonra 
Egypt. In the historical age of the world the power passes rapidljrMi 
irresistibly to Japhet. The great continuous stream ot human cmliaW 
runs, since that lime, clearly in a Japhetic bed; whereas Shera teka - 
most pnnninent part in the religious development ot mnukintl. Thelliw 
cognate religions which govern the world are Semitic, based open Seraw 
reconls, and founded and propagate«l by Semites. Hut conscious »p«» 
tion and philosophy speak by the mouth of Jiiphet; and ill heroBK 
Hellenes and Romans, Uoinauics and children of lim Gt-rmamc 
dawns among the Imiiiatis, and bursts the fetter* of Islatiiism m the Niw 
of Persia. It is to the sons of .Taphet that the heautlful was W'B ^ 
Before the llellens received that revelation in its fulness, before the fone 
the iinagos of tho gods were beheld by the reproducing artist, arcbiteiW- 
sculpture and painting had their temples in Iranian Asia. 
old empire must have borrowed from Joplictic inventors, m SolomoB 
Hiram did. In poetry, the Semite excels in the lyric: his 
tionality, weakened by the prevalence of iribe-feelinga, is not 
wide and vivid to produce epic poems, or narrative poetical reprrM“ 
of national destinies, riruilly, the drama, or the combiiiation ot Uif 
and epic elements, and the complete representation of the cternit w ^ 
human destiny in political society, is entirely unknown to the 
is exclusively the creation of the llelleiiic mind, feebly imiialeo ] 
Roman, re]>rotluced with originality by the genius of the Oenusnic 
Nor U Irauiun India entirely wanting in this last of the three 
poetical composition. The ‘Song of Solomon’ shows bow near t f 
brew mind was hi its zenith to the tlraraaric form, without 
go beyond tlie lyric. Thus everywhere the Semitic and the Japn''»« „ 
assist and complcto eacli other;’ but the Japhetic formation is n» « • 
always ihn higher. Individually the power of a great imlividuali^ i* 
among the Semites than among the Japhetites. Throughout 
Semitic nations act, as it were, the great episodes iu universal ‘f • ' 
temporary recoiiqursts of the land of the Japhetites, and I'y 
«uc pii.ut iiiTo. i tie only great empire wiucn me iieiuuva 
historical age (omitting the .Assyrian os not yet explored), that of 
was solely furated by the impulse of Mohaimued, .and under the in 
religious fanaticism. It fell to pieces when that impulse and that 
faded away. Christianity i.s of Semitic origin ; but it was stamp 
general religion of the world, and as tite organ of civilization, nj 
in its cradle the Semitic and Japhetic cflemcnt. First preached ^ jcj 
was carried over the world by the sons of Greece and Rome- ^**^**^(^ 
civilization, physiology and philology, go hand in hand to 
that Shem and Japhet can 110 more coalesce into one without *P 
be kept asumler without uxcrcising upon eacli other a strong 
influenee. ^ 
llie distinction between the Semitic and Japhetic tribes is 
no doubt in their language and in their general history. '/-winess ’■ 
but a glance over ttie American idioms, not to speak of the „ ; 
become aware of the fact, that the internal affinity 
ohem and Japhet is not founded upon any general similarity ^ 
s ruction of human speech. Physiology supplies 00 distinctioDS 
