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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM,

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and others which have intermingled. Thus on the one hand there are groups which have dominated exclusively inherent forces, and on the other hand groups

own

their

which by comminghng have crossed their

traits

with

those of other tribes, and thus have attained a higher perfection.

It is

noteworthy that the process of human

development steadily proceeds with those groups whose historic characteristic

On

of blood.

upon our race hfe secluded

in its isolation

at large.

itself,

manent impulse

we

not isolation but the commingling

the whole the Mongolian race has held

and

itself apart,

is

has bestowed no benefits

Behind the Himalayas a similar

and hence

failed to

to the outside world.

find that with the Scandinavians

impart any per-

Even

in

Europe

and Slavs there was

hardly

any intermingling of blood, and, consequently

having

failed to

part

little

On

develop a richer type, they have taken

show

that

the two languages of their inscriptions

in

Semitic-Babylonian in

the

life.

still

Mesopotamia the Aryan element of the

mingled

Accadians

human

the tablets from Babylon in our great

the other hand

Museums by

that

general development of

the

in

land

itself ;

at

an

early period with the

and Egyptology leads us to conclude of the Pharaohs

we

deal from the

beginning with a population produced by the mingling of two very different tribes. the

well as in Italy

we

one believes any longer

others.

who

earlier Pelasgians, Etruscians

Islam seems to be exclusively Arabic, but

a study of the spread Persians,

In Greece as

deal with races of a later date

have intermingled with the

and

No

pretended race-unity of the Greeks.

of Islamism

Turks and other

among

the Moors,

series of subjected tribes, with

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