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THE POWER OF KARMA of Bokhara and Little Thibet, which perhaps conccals from science revelations so precious. With what lights will not the origin of language be illuminated on the day when we shall find ourselves face to face with those places where were uttered for the first time the sounds that we still use, and where were created the intellectual categories which govern the exercise of our faculties. Even as the years of complete maturity do not equal in fruitful curiosity the first months during which the consciousness of the child awakes, so no place in the world has played a part comparable to that of a mountain or a valley without a name, where man awoke to a knowledge of himself. ... It was our Aryan progenitors, those austere patriarchs who, in the bosom of their chaste and submissive families, thanks to their pride of character, to their worship of the light, to their attachment to their customs, to their modesty, laid the foundations of the future. Their ideas, their words, were to become the law of the moral and intellectual world. They created those eternal words which after many changing shades were to become honour, goodness, virtue and duty.
The lofty mountain ranges of the Bolur Tagh and the towering peaks of the Hindu Kush looked down upon this simple and valiant race, and to their influence may be traced many of those qualities which have ever distinguished a victorious people.
