THE WORLD-FORCES IN HISTORY
were under the new conditions no longer despised as being outside the zone of civilisation, but had to be received by the civilised nations as members of the same system of life and thought.
The same influence that had led to the migration of the Aryans in primitive times were now at work in making the Teutonic tribes leave their original homes and seek new settlements and careers in unknown and untried lands. While the process of "barbarising" was going on in one quarter of the globe, a camel-driver of the Arabian deserts promulgated a new faith, and under its impulse innumerable tribes and sub-tribes started on a career of religious fanaticism. The result was that the old centres of civilisation in Europe and Asia became Teutonised
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