Here was arbitrary, relentless _power_ at any cost, to be maintained on any terms. "The end always justified the means." In the civilization of Greece, the Individual, the citizen was first, and association and co-operation built the State. With Rome the Individual is nothing but a pawn, an accessory to the Church. It was and is the Church first, last, and all the time. The Individual can claim no right nor prerogative except as a concession from the Church. The contrast is extreme and absolute between the Genius of Greece and that of Rome. As the Genius of Greece was adapted from the older Aryan, so also was that of Rome, from the Brahmans, through Egypt. Among the various Avatars of old India designated as "Incarnations of Vishnu," Siva "_the destroyer_," was often in evidence. Rome proceeded to adopt the Hindoo Trinity--Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva--(the Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer), and to so shape its creed and dogmas as to secure and maintain the power of Mother Church, simply with a change of names--"Father, Son, and Holy Ghost." It has enslaved nations and slaughtered millions in order to maintain its power. For more than fifteen hundred years it has maintained its relentless warfare against the inalienable rights of the Individual, and the inevitable progress of humanity. It has escaped the execration of the world only by its priestly trick of deifying Jesus and sophisticating every doctrine that he taught. Supporting its pretensions by Mariolatry, the Auricular Confession, and its army of spies and inquisitors, it has dominated mankind, impoverished whole nations, devastated provinces and murdered all who opposed its progress wherever and whenever it has gained civil power. Rome is to-day the literal and visible reincarnation of _Siva_, the _Avatar of Destruction_. She has originated nothing. Her mass and all her ritualistic mummeries are adopted from paganism at its worst stage and in its most degenerate form, and she awaits the fate that befell Egypt and all her predecessors, "Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities of the plain." Protestantism has hitherto "protested" only in part. Refusing Mariolatry and auricular confession, Protestantism, by accepting the miraculous conception, the deification of Jesus and the vicarious atonement, has kept Rome in countenance. When these are swept away, and their doom is already declared by the leaders of thought in nearly all our institutions of higher learning, the Roman _Avatar_ will stand revealed in all its nakedness and villainy to the execration of mankind. It is this "_Modernism_" that "His Holiness" so much fears and is trying to arrest. It is too late, unless civilization and the march of time move backward. The most amazing thing about it all is, how the world, with its present intelligence and culture, can be so indifferent to this most aggressive, cruel, and relentless Avatar of all the ages, instead of repelling it with contempt and execration.