Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-09
IMMIGRATION.
xxx PAST HUMAN VIBRATIONS.



Long before Joseph induced his breth-
rem to return for their father and bring
him up into Egypt, and long before Moses
afterward led them out from under Egyp-
tian bondage, humanity was unceas-
ingly on the move. After Babel and It's
confusion of tongues and the dispersion
of humanity, We get our next picture or
human wanderings from the Bible story
when Terah took Abram and Lot and
their wives and went forth from Ur OF
the Chaldes to go into the land OF Ca
naan They got as far as Haran, and
Abrams father. Terail. died there. Then
came the message to Abram to get thee
out of thy country, and from thy kim
dred, and from thy fathers house, unto
land that | will show thee" From this
land they Travelled into Egypt and out
again, and finally the possessions of
Abram and Lot became so great that
they could no longer get along together.
So Abram said to Lot that they would
separate and he would give him first
choice of the directions they could go.
And Lot chose the plain of Jordan, while
Abram chose Canaan.
And so the history of early Israel is full
patriarchs, their households, their herds
and their fiocks. Called forward by green
fields and pleasant watering places, lured
on by the thirst for the peaceful con-
quest of unoccupied lands and the mar
tial conquest of alien peoples. they march
ed here and there. both before and after
the exodus from Egypt.
The Israelites were a restless people,
and their constant seeking of new lands
10 possess and new opportunities TO I'M
prove in those days was perhaps no more
rema rkable than the spirit of the Jew
today, who is willing to pay the price In
the coin of suffering and isolation for
getting in the world and for estab-
fishing home and competence for his
children and those who come after them
lie willingly wanders through the deserts
of difficulty and prejudice If he can see
before him the promised land OF golden
opportunities. And that Is why he is
the most widely dispersed and yet the
most strictly isolated of all the races of
humanity.
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We do not know when man first began
his career on the earth. We know only
that vast geo.
Many Changes logic ages ago
Wrought by Time. mate and the
outline Of Europe were very different
from what they are today, and that man
lived there with animals long since ex-
tinct We do know that when the curtain
first rose on the stage of history 1T re-
vealed in some favored regions. such as
the valley of the Nile. nations and civili-
zations venerable with age and possessed
of languages and arts and institutions
that bear evidence of thousands or
years Of growth and development before
the period of written history began.
According to the most authentic in
formation gathered by the ethnologists.
the earliest inhabitants of Europe We're
of the yellow race, which. broadly speak
ing. not only includes the Chinese and
Japanese. but the Slavic peoples as well.
They were also the first inhabitants OF
the new world. In Europe today live two
small peoples who escaped the common
fate of an overwhelming avalanche of
civilization that swept UP behind them,
the Basques, sheltered by the Pyrenees.
and the Firms and Laps of the far north
The polished stone implements found in
the caves and river gravels of western
Europe. the kitchen middens upon the
shores of the Baltic, the Swiss lake hab-
itations and the burial mounds all over
Europe confirm the belief that close kins-
men of the Chinese were the first people
OF Europe. What happened in prehistoric
times in the migrations of humanity into
Europe has been witnessed in the coming
of the Hungarians and the Turks into
Europe.
Although the Aryan race is undoubted
ly the youngest of the great classes of
humanity, it is, collectively. the most
scattered. 1t includes the ancient Hindu
and the modern Englishman. the ancient
Roman and the modern Italian, the an
cient Athenian and the modern Greek.
Its descendants have peopled the new
world, Europe and Australia.
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see msto have been in the Hindu Kush
mountain region of
Original Seat northwestern Asia.
of Aryan Race. 300 Years that
have passed since the first pilgrims started
out of those mountain valleys to conquer
the world as they progressed they have
wandered all over the earth. Some tribes
spread over the tablelands of Iran and
the plains of India and became the pro-
genitors of the Modes, the Persians and
the Hindus.
The tribes which entered Europe prob
ably went there by way of the Helles-
pont. pushing themselves down into the
peninsulas and founding the Greek and
Roman states. The vanguard of the tribes
which swept across the middle Europe
from Asia to the west We're the Celts.
After them came the Teutonic tribes and
the hard-crowded Celts were forced out
upon the westernmost edge of Europe
into Gaul and Spain, and across the chan
mel to the British Isles where they are
represented to this day by the Welsh
the Irish and the Highland Scots Behind
the TeutonS came the Slavs, and they
pressed up against the Teutons a hard
the Teutons i'm their first days had
pressed against the Celts.
From the time when the first venture
some tribes began to wander westward
from the Aryan cradle home until now
the wanderlust has possessed the Aryan
peoples. and perhaps for four or five
thousand years they have been moving
forward and westward, and the great mi
grafton to America is but the continuing
flow of the stream that began so many
years ago.
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