The last hypothesis, however, is reincarnation, and that, as I have said, will overcome all difficulties. To postulate as a truth that a whole family must die and go to heaven together because the mother or father wishes to see them is unphilosophical. Members of that family may become entirely alienated, and then be compelled to be in a company not like themselves, with whom they do not wish to associate. They can escape only by reincarnation. They only come back again and again in families together who are like in character.
None escape from any family until they have altered their entire nature.
In a similar manner to this method in families, reincarnation also insures advance in races. No advance can be possible without it. The existence of savages, even at the present day, in America, in Borneo and in other places of the world, where there are hordes of them, can only be explained by reincarnation, as well as the further fact that they are melting away like the clouds of mist before the noonday sun. We say not. It is very true that the missionaries going there, and the trader following, does often bring about this result in part, but it is not wholly due to that.