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 one time, as narrow as the tribe of Navajos?—­This may be a very bold conclusion to draw from what is said in The Secret Doctrine; it may have no truth in it whatever:  other passages are to be found, perhaps, that would at least appear to contradict it.  But if it is true, it would account for what seems like a racial anomaly—­or more than one.  Science leans to the conclusion that the Australian aborigines are Aryan:  they are liker Aryans than anything else.  But we know from The Secret Doctrine that they are among the few last remnants of the Lemurians.  Again, the Ainos of Japan are very like Europeans:  they have many physical features in common with the Caucasians, and none in common with the peoples of East Asia.  Yet they are very low down in the scale of evolution:—­not so low as the Australian Blackfellow, but without much occasion for giving themselves airs.  A thousand years of contact with the much-washing Japanese have never suggested to them why God made soap and water.  Like many other people, they have the legend of the flood:  remember, as you may say, the fall of Atlantis; but unlike us upstarts of the Fourth and Fifth Races, they have also a legend of a destruction of the world by fire and earthquake—­a cataclysm that lasted, they say, a hundred days.  Is it a memory of the fate of Lemuria?