tants whom they have subjugated, and end their own existence as a peculiar people ; for the sin committed in Paradise was inevitably followed by expulsion.
From all time creative nations have been creative through and through, whether superficial observers do or do not realize it. Nothing but completed accom¬ plishment enforces recognition on such people, for most men in this world are incapable of perceiving genius in itself, but only the outward signs of it in the form of inventions, discoveries, buildings, paintings, etc. Even then it takes a long time before they arrive at comprehending it. Just as in the life of a great individual, genius, or indeed any uncommon char¬ acteristic, strives, under the spur of special induce¬ ments, to work out expression on itself in practical ways, so, in the life of nations, actual application of the creative forces, which are in them, is not produced except at the call of certain definite circumstances. We see this most clearly in the race which was and is the carrier of human cultural development—the Aryan.