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{{Style P-No indent|after which they will be ready in the next for the full reception of the “ Sons of Wisdom.” While those which “ were not ready ” at all, the latest Monads, which had hardly evolved from their last transitional and lower animal forms at the close of the Third Round, remained the “ narrow-brained ” of the Stanza. This explains the otherwise unaccountable degrees of intellectuality among the various races of men — the savage Bushman and the European — even now. Those tribes of savages, whose reasoning powers are very little above the level of the animals, are not the unjustly disinherited, or the ''unfavoured'', as some may think — nothing of the kind. They are simply those ''latest arrivals ''among the human Monads, which ''were not ready : ''which have to evolve during the present Round, as on the three remaining globes (hence on four different planes of being) so as to arrive at the level of the average class when they reach the Fifth Round. One remark may prove useful, as food for thought to the student in this connection. The monads of the lowest specimens of humanity (the “ narrow-brained ” * savage South-Sea Islander, the African, the Australian) ''had no Karma to work out when first born as men'', ''as their more favoured brethren in intelligence had. ''The former are spinning out Karma only now ; the latter are burdened with past, present, and future Karma. In this respect the poor savage is more fortunate than the greatest genius of ''civilised countries.''}}