and originally, perhaps, of one single race. All this culture depends on them for its very existence. If they are ruined, they carry with them all the beauty of this earth into the grave.
If we divide the human race into three categories —founders, maintainers and destroyers of culture— the Aryan stock alone can be considered as representing the first category.
The Aryan races—often in absurdly small numbers —overthrow alien nations, and favoured by the num¬ bers of people of lower grade who are at their disposal to aid them, they proceed to develop, according to the special conditions for life in the acquired territories— fertility, climate, etc., the qualities of intellect and organization which are dormant in them. In the course of a few centuries they create cultures originally stamped with their own character of the land and the people which they have conquered. As times goes on, however, the conquerors sin against the principle of keeping the blood pure (a principle which they adhered to at first) and begin to blend with the original inhabi¬