Jesus and Mahomet, and Perhaps some Other Partly Educated, Self-Asserting Media.

This is a very high class of mind, but had the education been more complete, the formalism would have appeared higher upon the list, and have therefore been more powerful to assist reason in keeping the imagination and other unreason in check.

Milton, when writing "Iconoclastes," as a reasoning formalist, was a totally different man at the time from John Milton at work on "Paradise Lost." Some men can as it were completely throw themselves out of gear from one class of thought, and act instantly with the most complete vigour on others.

As to the Chinese, East Indians, and other similar races, these should now endeavour to learn how to regulate their populations, and also to enforce a rule for so doing amongst their people, thereby abolishing child-murder amongst the infants and periodical famine amongst those who grow up; also, to educate all in a sound and liberal manner, to learn and practice such European notions as may suit their nations, and to surpass their teachers of old time. The ancient dispensations are now passing away; God no longer requires simply numbers for spirit life; now it is rather mental quality that is looked for, keeping up their numbers also, but not starving one another with over population. May they soon be able to understand their rights and duties as free, civilised men.

Possibly in the future it may be advisable for the nations of southern Europe to seek connection by marriage with the races of the north; the Scandinavians and other Teutons have a certain reliability about them that is somewhat lacking in the nature of the southern tribes, while the quickness of intellect the latter possess is of great value wherever it goes. Therefore if these nations could arrange to receive yearly, some battalions of the golden haired hand-maidens thoroughly well trained for household and other work required in the south, the dark haired girls could return the compliment at the north, and a certain proportion of marriages would result from such a custom; a good cross being kept up, and that is often better than pure breed for spiritual and moral purposes. In Great Britain we have Gaels and Gaelic trained Teutons in the Highlands of Scotland; Celts and Celtic trained Gaels and Teutons in south and west of Ireland; Saxons and Saxon trained Gaels and Celts in England Wales and the north of Ireland, and these mixtures have helped much towards spreading liberal ideas and institutions all over the world.

Frenchmen, though friendly towards England, often feel as foreigners in that land because, being strong venerators themselves, they cannot obtain entire sympathy from a purely self-asserting people, neither nation while spiritually untaught, can understand the other. The ancient Gael, either in France, Britain or Ireland, doubtless always venerated his chief and then his clan, and after that he had but little left for those who were not clansmen. The Romans must have greatly changed the original state of the intellect in ancient Gallia and Wales, but they never were able to do anything to alter that of the Scottish Highlanders. Thus we can at the present day, to some extent, compare old Gaul with modern France. The time will not be long before all of the Gaelic races will be classified on a sound stratification of mind suitable for the higher civilisations.

The modern Frenchman seems to me to venerate what he considers great ideas instead of persons; if an artist or workman, he has often great admiration for republicanism, communism or even for the "poor" man, that is for poverty itself, looking on it as being one proof of honesty; his brother in England never, as far as I know, has the slightest respect for poverty as an abstract idea, he would say that "poverty is no crime, but it is d—d inconvenient;" as to venerating it, the notion would be absurd to him, of the two he is rather more likely to venerate wealth, while many French people, though they may envy, yet do they not have any respect for wealth, or for those that possess it. The Frenchman also venerates his trade, the Englishman generally only tries to make a living by it, and thus it is that such trades as photography, &c., where the fine arts are touched upon, the matter of fact Englishman is sometimes distanced by his venerating neighbour. The excellent way the French are now working their republic shows that veneration for great political ideas may yet prove a complete success, and so it will be, if they will endeavour to keep their imagination free from glory, &c., reserving their fighting power in the interests of the nation or of humanity, but not thinking of it as if there was nothing else worth living for. The stratification of venerating reason above sound formalism will suit the French as well as the British people, and the Gallic, intense spirit of comradeship must be very similar to our friendly self-assertion, training will probably render neighbouring nations still more like one another as the world rolls on. There is a difference in the reason itself of some of the European nations, which is spiritually shown as similar to the colours red, yellow, and white, with their admixtures. The Gaelic reason is white, pure, keen and suitable for philosophy and all great ideas, but not so useful for statesmanship as the yellow type, which is that of Italian, Spaniard, and part of the Greek people. Then as generals, the blood red colour is used to define such as Themistocles, Oliver Cromwell, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and other leaders and rulers of men of the highest rank in that class of mind. Those nations with whom the white and also the red (for rulers) predominates, are fondest of fighting out in the open; the yellow reasoners prefer to fight under cover, but can be trained to fight on the plain as well as the others do. The Romans, when mostly of Italian page 33 race, nevertheless fought well in the field, and they were beyond any other people at earthwork defences. Also the people of the yellow reason, when in an uncivilised condition, are rather fond of torturing their enemies, and of cruel sports; while the French, the English, the Germans, and the negroes kill with groat zeal, but as a rule they do not, and never did, care to torture their captives. The Iberians, the Maories and the American Indians, who prefer engineering and craft to upstanding fighting, have been also great inventors of cruelties to be exercised on their captive foes; all these evil feelings, if we endeavour to check them, can be checked, and as for savages, whether such prefer to torture 10 or would instead rather kill 100 it matters little, if they only try to join in with us, and give up their bad habits, they will thus save themselves from extermination, which otherwise will be their fate whether civilised man assists the work or not.

As to the Russians, they are a people who have evidently a great future before them, and were they to become disunited, their power for carrying on the great work of civilisation in northern Asia would receive a serious check; they can do that far better than any other race, partly from their geographical position, but still more from the amount or blood kinship joining them in gradation of ideas, first with the Tartars and afterwards perhaps with even the Chinese and Japanese, whom it would appear are similar in race, although disunited from the Tartar stock ages ago, and spiritually developed in quite a different direction from that of the western nations; possibly the southern Sclavonians, the Poles, and even the Italians, Greeks, Persians and Brahmins may be but various branches of the Tartar tribes, differently trained for long periods of time. I think, but may be wrong in so thinking, that

are types of pure races that never have descended from one Adam, and that most of the other varieties are but the result of different training, climate and cross-breeding; perhaps the Australian natives and the ancient black race of India and the islands are allied, and originally may have been one people. The Maori and other Kanaka tribes are one in their brooding modes of thought, their buildings supported by statues of men, their style of ornamentation in dress, weapons and canoes; also their traditions in the various islands point to a common fatherland in the northwest, and where in that direction could their forefathers have seen such large statues of men and Gods as to cause them to be imitated on Easter Island and other places? Where, but in old Egypt. We know for certain, from Herodotus, that the Egyptians rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and came back to the Nile through the Pillars of Hercules; if the king caused one voyage to be made successfully, his subjects would perhaps make fresh expeditions tor the purposes of gaining wealth, and thus the Malays, Kanakas and Ovahs of Madagascar may have come from northern Africa originally, the first-named tribes marrying with Tartar or Indian women, and the Kanakas in some instances becoming mingled with the Papuan and other negroid tribes, and possibly also they might have brought pure negroes or Nubians along with them. As far as I am acquainted with the Maori speech, it seems to be similar in several words and ideas to that of Egypt; in that land Ra was the God of fire; with the Maori Ra means the sun. Rameses was a kingly name, a Radama also once ruled in Madagascar, and the same first syllable is constantly occurring in New Zealand names. Also the Maori language possesses the three distinctions of singular, plural and dual, and so I believe aid the Egyptian. I cannot say anything authoritatively on this point, but when seeing a Maori woman dressed in the ornamented flax mat going to the well for water, one can hardly avoid noticing the Egyptian resemblance. The higher class Egyptians had a religious objection to seafaring, and the Pharoahs often employed Phœnician seamen, but it no means page 34 follows that all of their people were thus trained against the sea; in India, under similar circumstances, some castes will not follow the sea whilst others will.

Certain diseases are intended to teach us that one man should cleave unto one woman, they also assist in weeding the vile from off the face of the earth; it is true that the heaviest punishment falls often on the least guilty, the Divine intention being that in all these matters, human beings shall be left to themselves to study and find out what to do and what to avoid. In a polygamous family there are no such diseases, because there the children and women are duly cared for; nevertheless polygamy is not spiritually desirable; but where women are ill-treated and they become uncleanly in their person, vengeance is carried into effect on some of the male sex, and also on those females who are not careful of sexual honour and decency; blind natural law awards the punishment, and prudence is well shown in avoiding anything that our reason and universal experience teaches us to be wrong, uncleanly or unnecessary.

It is absurd to try to make a good lawyer of a plain jonnuck lad, the money is wasted on the attempt, as certainly as it would be in trying to teach a non-musical girl to play and not mangle the piano, and yet both the boy and the girl may be clever enough in other, to them, more suitable directions.

Give up the notion that God cares more for one race or person than for another, except when pure spiritual reason points out that there is some good to the world to be gained from such care.

Wealth or poverty are in themselves but of little advantage or disadvantage to us when considered from a spiritual point of view, nevertheless in the future it will not be required of unselfish reasoners that they give up their gifts either for national or private benefit, without receiving a due money or other equivalent. The inventors of physical improvements and thinkers in other matters should assert themselves, and also mankind for its own better interests should see that such are duly paid.

Grey hair is in itself neither honourable nor dishonourable, it is simply the natural sign that should teach us to select, when reasonable so to do, suitable mates from amongst our own generation; due respect, however, should always be shown to seniors.

The man who blacks our boots, if he is above us in moral and intellectual nature, is also for that simple reason our superior, or at any rate our equal in spirit life; the sooner that this fact is thoroughly comprehended by humanity, the better for us all. Nevertheless such possible intellectual superiority alone, is no sufficient spiritual reason for making any great alteration in earthly position, for such matters are but of small moment compared to things of eternity.

Twenty-five years ago on the Victorian goldfields I was acquainted with a young west of Englander, the perfect type of an English rustic, frank look, rosy cheeks and brown hair; many years afterwards I came across the same man again, but there was a very great change in him; instead of the frank, jonnuck manner that implies the taking of things and people as they appear on the outside, or the not troubling much about what they mean; in place of this there was the sly, sneaking glance out of the corner of the eye, common to the inferior types of reason; yes, he had become a self-asserting reasoner, lost his liking for labour and adopted a preference for gambling to win, and therefore he was using his reason to find out the weak points of people he was about to play with, thus the better to use his formalism to take their money; now had he remained under the old stratification, he would have kept his original open countenance and some of his many other natural advantages, and also his mental qualifications perhaps improved by age; however, he had given up all that and become what the higher spiritual laws never intended him to be, namely, a constant thinker. I do not mean that in the future such people should not keep their wits about them, nevertheless they need not reason with entire reference to number one; better to stick to a trade or business, using their formalism all day and being agreeable and friendly with suitable associates in the evening, page 35 engaging sometimes in such discussions as may be best suited to train their higher formalism to assist reason in more excellent modes and matters of thought and action.

Welsh and Cornish men, although the Gaelic element prevails greatly amongst them, yet do they not, I believe, care very much to be soldiers or policemen, unless trouble of some kind or other drives them to it. On the other hand, the highland Gaels and Scots (Gaelic trained) are often eager for such occupations. The Welsh, though retaining their old language, have cast away their ancient mental training to a considerable extent, perhaps partly through old Roman influence; at anyrate they have now adopted much of the mode of thought of their English neighbours, and the jonnuck of Wales is something tremendous as far as my experience goes; both they and the Cornish are rather more talkative, and therefore in that respect somewhat like their French congeners; nevertheless there can be no doubt but that they are in full mental unison with the larger part of the British nations, and thus there is little danger of disputes as to matters of race and ancient injuries given and received. They will fight for the flag gallantly enough in a popular cause, but not because they are particularly inclined to avoid formal labour. Many of the Scottish highland race are also getting into similar ways of thinking, particularly when they have gained some good Glasgow experience.