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olden days people married in the family; it was then
looked upon with horror if one should "seek after strange
flesh." When the sons of God married the daughters of men,
that is to say, when the subjects of one leader married out-
side the tribe, there was great trouble, they were cast off by
their leader and destroyed, for at that time certain qualities
that we now possess were to be developed in humanity
and were thus implanted in the common blood which ran
pure in the family or small tribe. Later on when marwas
to be brought down into more material conditions,
international marriages were commanded and, from that
time on, it has been looked upon as equally
horrible if
persons within the same family united in marriage.
The old Vikings would not allow anyone to marry into
their family unless they had first gone through the cere-
mony of mixing blood to see if the transfusion of the
blood of the stranger into their family was detrimental
or otherwise. All this was because in earlier times human-
ity was not as individualized as it is today. They were
more under the domination of the race spirit or family
spirit, which dwelt in their blood, as the group spirit of
animals does in the blood of animals. Later the inter-
national marriages were given to free humanity from that
yoke and make every separate Ego sole master of its own
body without outside interference.
Science has lately found that the blood of different
people has different crystals, so that it is possible now to
tell the blood of a negro from the blood of a white man;
but there will come a day when they will know a still
greater difference, for just as there is a difference in the
crystals formed by the different races, so there is also a
difference in the crystals formed by each individual man.
The thumb-marks of no two people are alike, and it will be