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Caucasian Civilization.

The supremacy of the Caucasian race
dates from the earliest historical times. It
is the only branch of the human family that
has ever originated progressive civilization.
Nay, believe that if our knowledge of the
remote ages were nearer, we should find that
the civilization of all other races sprung
from it, and that the rise and fall of the
ancient empires were but the successive
steps by which it rose. The light of civil
ization, in the course of four thousand years,
has been handed from one tribe to another,
but it has always remained in the possession
of some family. Some scholars talk of ac-
cidental advantage. There is no such thing
as accident in the divine government of the
world If all history were blotted out, phys
iology alone would prove the supremacy of
the Caucasian. And the experience Of all
travellers is, that this supremacy is naturally
and iustinctively felt and acknowledged by
all other races, with the exception of the
MongOian, who are too conceited to allow
their inferiority in anything,
Captain Cochran, in Siberia, not only
travelled in safety among the savages, but
was we'll paid for giving them his blessing
as that of superior being. | have under
stood that Barret, Burton, and DuChaillu,
penetrated the widest recesses of Africa, the
natural Superiority Of their character being
an invulnerable shield. No one supposes
that Malay, Mongolian or American Indian
could safely accomplish the same.
Whether this development of civilization
is occssfoned by, or independent of climate,
we find it, with very few exceptions, exist
inp in the zone of raean temperature. 1t
has ma rched from east to west, sending off
branches north and south, but not deviating
generally in its course from the central por-
tiou of the temperate zone-the golden mean
between the two extremes OF heat and cold.
Ct is therefore, to be inferred shat tnat oeit
.of climate is more favorable to human de-
yelopment and progress.
The Egyptian monarchy was formerly con-
sidered as forming an exception to this claim
Later researches prove that they were
branch of the Caucasian family. Even the
Ethiopians, down at latitude fifteen, notwith-
standing their dark complexion, have
straipht hair, and are not like the negro
race. The complexion of the old Egyptian
was brown, the hair straight and the nose
prominent. I saw mummy of princess
whose hair was dark brown with slight
auburn tinge.
The color of the complexion may be modi-
fed by climate, but the form OF the features
is not changed. Thus, the Arab in the
valley of the Nile is very dark, but he has
the same eagles beak of nose, the same
thin nostrils and narrow jaws.
Egypt lies in the temperate Eone, according
to geography, but its climate is considered
tropical. Owing to the dryness of the air.
it has bracng vital character which We
never find under the equator. During the
Winter the thermometer falls low enough to
make coldness perceptible. l have seen it
at Thebes within eight degrees of the freezing
point. In January, 1853, snow fell all
through the desert, and in the old Arab
records there are even accounts of the Nile
being frozen over. Thus, while the palm
and banana flourish in this country, 1t can
scarcely be considered a tropical climate.
We may therefore, claim that every
important triumph since the creation of man
belongs to the Caucasian race. And if we
except the Phenicians, who can not positively
be claimed, because we do not know enough
about them) every form of reasonable re-
lipion and code Of moral and social law,
originated from the same race. Buddish,
Brahminish, the system ofZoroaster, Grecian
mythology, Judaism, Christianity and Ma
hommedism were first made known through
the various Caucasian branches The race
has not only been chosen, in the providence
of God, as the fittest for receiving and dis
eeminating his eternal truths, but it has also
riyen rise to all other religious creeds
which rest on moral and philosophical
basis 1t has developed government. laws,
arts, and sciences, languages, literature; has
discovered and subjugated the latent forces
of nature, has gone often beyond the earth,
and measured the stars in their courses, and
only paused on the brink of that awful
infinity which is the veil covering the coun-
tenance of God.
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