Voorspel, naspel & gevolgen tot in myDi-today! 253


~^*@*^~
THE patient
myDi-reader/writer
will very probably note a general similarity
in our myDi-history of all these different human civilisations
in spite of the effectual separation
caused by very huge or at least quite great barriers
of the Indian north-west frontier and
of the mountain masses of central Asia
and farther India?
~^*@*^~

~!*!~
FIRST
for thousands of years
the Heliolithic culture spread over all the warm and fertile river valleys
of the Old World and developed a temple system
and priest-rulers about its
sacrificial traditions.
Apparently its first makers
were always those brunet peoples we have spoken of as
'the central race' of
mankind?
~!*!~

~*~
THEN
the nomads came in
from the regions of seasonal grass and seasonal migrations and superposed their own characteristics
and often their own language on
the primitive civilisation!
~*~

^!^
THEY
subjugated and stimulated it,
and were stimulated to fresh developments
and made it here one thing
and there another?
^!^

*!*
In Mesopotamia
it was the Elamite
and then the Semite,
and at last the Nordic medes and Persians and the Greeks
who supplied the ferment;
over the region of the Aegean peoples it was the Greeks;
in India it was the Aryan-speakers;
in Egypt there was a thinner infusion of conquerors
into a more intensely saturated
priestly civilisation;
in China, the Hun conquered and was absorbed
and was followed by
fresh Huns.
*!*

>~<
China was Mongolised
just as Greece and North India was Aryanised and
Mesopotamia Semitised and
Aryanised.
>~<





*
EVERYWHERE
the nomads destroyed much,
but also everywhere they brought in a new spirit of free inquiry
and moral innovation.
#

?
THEY questioned
the beliefs of immemorial ages.
THEY let daylight into
the temples.
?

!
THEY
set up kings
who were neither priests nor gods
but mere leaders among their captains
and companions?
!

~@~

IN
the centuries following
the sixth century B.C. we can find
everywhere a great breaking down of ancient traditions
and a new spirit of moral and intellectual inquiry
awake,
a spirit never more to be altogether stilled in the great progressive
movement of mankind.

~@~

WE
can find reading and writing
becoming common and accessible myDi-accomplishments
among the ruling and prosperous minority;
they were no longer the jealously guarded secret
of the priests?

~@~

TRAVEL
is increasing
and transport growing easier
by reason of horses and roads.
A NEW and EASY device to facilitate trade
has been found in coined
money.

~@~

LET US NOW
{maybe tonight or tomorrow?}
transfer our myDi-attention back from China in the extreme east
of the Old Wold to thewestern half of the Mediterranean!
HERE we have to note the appearance of a city which
was destined to play at last a very great part
indeed in human myDi-affairs:
ROME.

@


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