Note 266 — Chapter VII · THE GODS AND THE SONS OF GOD

After all, the immense superiority of the Greeks over other branches of the Aryan family at a very early period in the historical age needs some accounting for, and has never been satisfactorily explained. Is it not possible that the elements of Cro-Magnon blood that they must have had in them do satisfactorily explain this superiority? Is it not even logical to suppose that since they have surpassed for all time all other branches of the original family in culture, art and thought, that therefore something unusual must have occurred in their history which did not occur in the history of the other branches? For it is not necessary to suppose that the other branches of the Aryan family, particularly those that went into the southern regions of France and Italy, did not encounter the Cro-Magnons. They may simply have fought them, overwhelmed them by numbers, and exterminated them.