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" Each unit lives his long series of progressive lives, not in one race but in
many successive races, in order that he may learn the special lessons which each
has to teach. One can image a soul incarnating in ancient India to develop
religious fervour, in classical Greece to gain artistic capacity, in the Rome of
the Caesars to learn the immense power of discipline and order, among ourselves
at the present day to acquire the scientific habit of mind, and so on.

The same great host of souls sweeps on through all ages, animating all
the these races in turn, and learning from all; but the races themselves arise,
grow, decay and fall as they are needed. So when a nation loses its former glory
and falls behind in the race (as, for example, modern Greece seems to have done
in comparison with ancient Greece), it does not mean that a certain group of men
is decadent, but that there are at the moment no souls who need precisely the
type of training which that race at its best used to give, or that that training
is now being given elsewhere.

Consequently, the physical bodies of the descendants of those great men
of old are now animated by souls of a lower type, while the great men themselves
are now (as ever) in the forefront of evolution, but incarnated in some other
race in order to grow still greater by developing in new directions. A race dies
precisely as a class at a university might die if there were no longer any
students taking up that particular subject."

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Anand Gholap