We have seen opportunities coming to each nation in turn; but that how they used them depended on themselves:  on whether they would turn them to spiritual or partly spiritual, or to wholly material uses:  whether they would side, in their hour of prosperity, with the Gods—­as China did to some extent; or with the hellions, as in the main Europe did.  And above all, we have seen how the Gods will never accept defeat, but return ever and again to the attack, and are in perpetual heroic rebellion against the despotism of materialism and evil and human blindness; and we know that the victory they so often failed to achieve of old, they are out to win now, and in the way of winning it:  that we are in the crisis and most exciting of times, standing to make the future ages golden; that the measure of the victory the Gods shall win is somewhat in our own hands to decide.  The war-harps that played victory to Heaven at Moytura of old are sounding in our ears now, if we will listen for them; and when Point Loma was founded, it was as if once more the shaft of Lugh the Sunbright took the eye of Balor Balcbeimnech in the midst.

And so, at this point, we take leave of our voyaging together through the past.

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* Perhaps, if we knew anything about American history, to America.  One is tempted to put two and two together, in the light of what we have seen, and note what they come to.  The great American Empires fell before Cortes and Pizarro, between 1520 and 1533.  That surely marked the end of a manvantaa or fifteen hundred years period of cultural activity; which then would have begun between 20 and 33 A.D.—­upon a backwash of the cycle from Augustan Rome?  We are not to imagine that any outward link would be necessary.  Is it possibly a fact that in those centuries, the first five of our era roughly, when both Europe and China were somewhat sterile for the most part,—­the high tide of culture and creation was mainly in the antipodes of each other, America and India?  And that after the fall of the Tang glory in China (750) and the Irish illumination in the west (775), some new phase of civilization began, somewhere between the Rio Grande del Norte and the borders of Chile?  The Incaic Empire, like the Han and the Western Roman, we know lasted about four centuries, or from the region of 1100-A.D.—­But there we must leave it, awaiting the work of discovery.