se
circumstances, has run a greater risk.

Of what race are we? I say, of no race at all, but can view the
matter as Human Souls, reincarnating egos, prepared to go where
the Law bids us. Races are only temporary institutions set up
for the convenience of the Host of Souls.

We see, I suppose, the results of such a breakdown in Africa.
Atlanteans were segregated there; isolated; and for a million
years degenerated in that isolation to what they are. But their
ancestors, before that segregation began, had better airships
than we have; were largely giants, in more respects than the
physical, were we are pygmies. Now they are--whatever may be
their potentialities, whatever they may become--actually an
inferior reace. And it is a racial stock that shows no signs of
dying out. What then?--I suppose indeed there must be backward
races, to house backward egos;--though for that matter you would
think that our Londons and Chicagos and the rest, with their
slums, would provide a good deal of accommodation.

Or consider the Redskins, here and in South America: whether
Atlanteans, or of some former subrace of the Fifth, at least not
Aryans. Take the finest tribes among them, such as the Navajos.
Here is a very small hereditary stream, kept pure and apart: of
fine physique; potentially of fine mentality; unsullied with
vices of any sort: a people as much nearer than the white man to
natural spirituality, as to natural physical health. It is no
use saying they are so few. Two millenniums ago, how many were
the Anglo-Saxons? Three millenniums ago, how many were the
Latins? Supposing the white race in America failed. The
statistics of lunacy--of that alone--are a fearful _Mene, Tekel
Upharsin_ written on our walls, for any Daniel with vision
to read. I think Naure must also take into account these
possibilities. Does she keep in reserve hereditary streams and
racial stocks other than her great and main ones, _in case of
accidents?_ Are the Redskins among these?

_The Secret Doctrine_ seems to hint sometimes that the founders
of our Fifth Root Race were of Lemurian rather than Atlantean
descent. Nowhere is it actually said so; but there are a number
of passages that read, to me, as if they were written with that
idea, or theory, or fact, in mind. Is it, possibly, that a small
pure stream of Lemurian heredity had been kept aloof through all
the years of Atlantis, in reserve;--some stream that may have
been, at