Andite Expansion in the Orient

79:7.1About fif­teen thou­sand years ago the And­ites, in con­sid­er­able num­bers, were travers­ing the pass of Ti Tao and spread­ing out over the up­per val­ley of the Yel­low River among the Chi­nese set­tle­ments of Kansu. Pres­ently they pen­e­trated east­ward to Ho­nan, where the most pro­gres­sive set­tle­ments were sit­u­ated. This in­fil­tra­tion from the west was about half An­don­ite and half And­ite.

79:7.2The north­ern cen­ters of cul­ture along the Yel­low River had al­ways been more pro­gres­sive than the south­ern set­tle­ments on the Yangtze. Within a few thou­sand years af­ter the ar­rival of even the small num­bers of these su­pe­rior mor­tals, the set­tle­ments along the Yel­low River had forged ahead of the Yangtze vil­lages and had achieved an ad­vanced po­si­tion over their breth­ren in the south which has ever since been main­tained.

79:7.3It was not that there were so many of the And­ites, nor that their cul­ture was so su­pe­rior, but amal­ga­ma­tion with them pro­duced a more ver­sa­tile stock. The north­ern Chi­nese re­ceived just enough of the And­ite strain to mildly stim­u­late their in­nately able minds but not enough to fire them with the rest­less, ex­ploratory cu­rios­ity so char­ac­ter­is­tic of the north­ern white races. This more lim­ited in­fu­sion of And­ite in­her­i­tance was less dis­turb­ing to the in­nate sta­bil­ity of the San­gik type.

79:7.4The later waves of And­ites brought with them cer­tain of the cul­tural ad­vances of Mes­o­po­ta­mia; this is es­pe­cially true of the last waves of mi­gra­tion from the west. They greatly im­proved the eco­nomic and ed­u­ca­tional prac­tices of the north­ern Chi­nese; and while their in­flu­ence upon the re­li­gious cul­ture of the yel­low race was short-lived, their later de­scen­dants con­tributed much to a sub­se­quent spir­i­tual awak­en­ing. But the And­ite tra­di­tions of the beauty of Eden and Dala­ma­tia did in­flu­ence Chi­nese tra­di­tions; early Chi­nese leg­ends place “the land of the gods” in the west.

79:7.5The Chi­nese peo­ple did not be­gin to build cities and en­gage in man­u­fac­ture un­til af­ter 10,000 B.C., sub­se­quent to the cli­matic changes in Tur­kes­tan and the ar­rival of the later And­ite im­mi­grants. The in­fu­sion of this new blood did not add so much to the civ­i­liza­tion of the yel­low man as it stim­u­lated the fur­ther and rapid de­vel­op­ment of the la­tent ten­den­cies of the su­pe­rior Chi­nese stocks. From Ho­nan to Shensi the po­ten­tials of an ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tion were com­ing to fruit. Met­al­work­ing and all the arts of man­u­fac­ture date from these days.

79:7.6The sim­i­lar­i­ties be­tween cer­tain of the early Chi­nese and Mes­o­po­ta­mian meth­ods of time reck­on­ing, as­tron­omy, and gov­ern­men­tal ad­min­is­tra­tion were due to the com­mer­cial re­la­tion­ships be­tween these two re­motely sit­u­ated cen­ters. Chi­nese mer­chants trav­eled the over­land routes through Tur­kes­tan to Mes­o­po­ta­mia even in the days of the Sume­ri­ans. Nor was this ex­change one-sided—the val­ley of the Eu­phrates ben­e­fited con­sid­er­ably thereby, as did the peo­ples of the Gangetic plain. But the cli­matic changes and the no­madic in­va­sions of the third mil­len­nium be­fore Christ greatly re­duced the vol­ume of trade pass­ing over the car­a­van trails of cen­tral Asia.