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310 Alas, meanwhile the Moslems from time to time raise the menacing green flag of the Prophet, which forces the Europeans to take arms and thus at one fell swoop wipes out the gains of patient, enduring toil, sweeping away hundreds of misguided natives and leaving Death ever ready to swing further his fatal scythe. This affords irrefragable proof that only evolution in Islam and synchronously an evolution in the colonial politics of the white race can lead into another channel the fate of material Western civilization on this globe of ours. I say "material civilization," as Islam, Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism and even paganism do not want our moral civilization as it stands today. It appeals to them as pernicious hypocrisy, as words void of real sense and as never soundly based, inasmuch as—following the declaration of the Indian Moslems in London—"Europe has forgotten Christ's Sermon on the Mount."