The Archive · 1928

Asia's Religious Contribution

Dir. Sokolsky starts from earliest legendary period of the origins of man, of which many quaint stories survive. Not to court controversy, one may well feel that the story told by the Bock of Genesis is at least as good as all others and in many respects belt This section rapidly brings us to the undoubted fact that, wh Asia gives nothing (o the wor! politically, in religion she has given everything. Christ, Mahomet, and Buddha. "It is indeed a cate of Oriente lus. Similarly the great migrations of peoples seem to have had their origin in Asia, with one notable" exception, namely the Norsemen who discovered America seat the nan had waine the wig sind placed on the head of mine, Ne asas a bulldog. In this parture, and with this attire, the dog stood "looking Aurnestly' ind fixedly "atthe actors fund had. caught Garsicl's eye. The Faneared ae ernie Si rene ergot his arrows an oat fon the one hand and penetrated through Europe even to Cos stantinople itself. Mr, Sokolsky has wisely given a "food many Pages to this numerically ¢mal! but characteristically all-potent people whose architecture and customs continue to influence us to' this day and whose travels are the first recorded example of the enormous influence of fea power. We do not forget the Phoenicians as raders and merchants, but their area operations was ta nail compared w

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