The imported is apt to seem more important than the home-made; as the far-off bewitches more easily than the near.

But just as castles in the air do not commonly become the property of their builders, so mansions in the skies almost as frequently have failed of direct inheritance.

Rather strikingly has this proved the case with what are to-day the two most powerful religions of the world,--Buddhism and Christianity.

Neither is now the belief of its founder's people.

What was Aryan-born has become Turanian-bred, and what was Semitic by conception is at present Aryan by adoption.