For the building of a new type is not made out of those in whom the type of the old Race, that which is before those who are selected for a changed line of evolution, has flowered.

The triumphs of evolution in the Fourth Race, as the Fourth Race judged them, were by no means the best material for the building of the Fifth.

Those who were most admired in the Fourth, those who were regarded as the flowers of their own nations, were those in whom the kamic faculty, with its allied psychic powers, was most developed, was most triumphant.

For you must remember that in the very different civilisation of those days, psychic powers were playing an enormous part in all the most highly developed people of the time.

Where the dawning principle of manas began somewhat to triumph over the kamic, there the psychic faculties inevitably diminished in their power, and showed themselves very much more feebly than in the leaders of the time, those who were the pioneers of the civilisation of the day.