Marching along with primitive man, thru long periods of time, you next meet him developed as the Crusader of the Mediaeval period.  He has mounted thru war and his religion and stands at the feet of the Priestess of Religion, the last group at the upper part of the Tower.

On either side you will notice a man and a woman standing on the bodies of primitive beings.  These figures represent the man and the woman of today — the man and the woman who have sprung from this primitive stock.

Don’t stop in this beautiful Court of the Ages, for we shall return later to finish our story.

You have gotten connection enough now to allow you to return to the Court of the Universe.

Take a seat in the sunken garden and look up at the figures on the Triumphal Arch of the Rising Sun.  The Orientals are represented by many types.

 From left to right are seen: 

1.  The Arab sheik on his Arabian steed. 2.  The Negro servitor with fruits on head. 3.  The Egyptian on his camel, carrying a Mohammedan standard. 4.  The Arab falconer with bird on wrist. 5.  The splendid Indian prince on the back of the elephant. 6.  Inside the howdah the Spirit of the East. 7.  The lama from Thibet with his rod of authority. 8.  The Mohammedan with his crescent standard. 9.  Again a negro servitor. 10.  The Mongolian on his horse.

On they come, these Orientals, to take part in the great celebration.  (They are the collaborated work of A. Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, Frederick Roth.)

Next look up at your Occidentals on the Arch of the Setting Sun.

 From left to right you see: 

1.  The French Canadian — the trapper. 2.  The Alaskan with her totem poles on her back. 3.  The Latin-American on horseback. 4.  The German. 5.  The Italian. 6.  The Anglo-American. 7.  The Squaw with her papoose basket. 8.  The American Indian on his horse.

In the center is the old Prairie Schooner drawn by the great oxen.

Atop, pushing out, is Enterprise leading these men westward, on either side a white boy and a colored boy, The Heroes of Tomorrow.

In front marches that stalwart Mother of Tomorrow.  It has taken all these Occidentals to produce the work that is coming in the future — the achievements due to the completion of the Panama Canal — therefore, they conjointly express “The Mother of Tomorrow.”

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These nations are now marching into the Court of the Universe and are to meet in front of the Tower of Jewels, the symbol of the Panama Canal.

Read now on the Occidental Gateway the magnificent lines by Walt Whitman: 

“Facing west from California’s shores,
Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound,
I, a child, very old, over waves
Toward the house of maternity, the land of migrations look afar,
Look off the shores of my western sea,
The circle almost circled.”

Mr. Porter Garnett’s excellent explanation you may be glad to read: