The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
The White Race.

The White Race.
There are certain plants which under
favorable circumstances drive out and
destroy all other competing plants !;
there are certain animals, as for in
stance the Norway rat, which extermi-
nate all other varieties Of the same spe-
cies. There is one race Of men which,
wherever it comes in contact with other
races of the human family, destroys or
subjugates them. This race is known
as the Indo-European race-in other
words, the white race. By the affini-
ties of language one blood is traced
from the founders Of the civilization of
Hindoostan to the founders of the civ
lization of Persia, Greece, Rome, mod
ern Europe and America. Wherever
they have appeared this race came as
conquerors, colonizers, the builders of
cities and the founders of nations.
Their mental and vital power exceeded
CAdC VI Oil OIAtCA POOPAS'
They enslaved the darker races in
India, they drove the Lapps to the
northern coasts of Europe, and the
Basques into the mountains of Spain
they turned the negroes into slaves in
America and drove the red men before
them like the buffalo. Everywhere
they have been masters.
With one exception they were believed
to have originated every development of
civilization known in the history of the
world st that exception was Egypt.
This wonderful country, whose origin
extended back into vast antiquity, was
supposed to have been founded by a
dark-skinned, wooly-haired race; and
it was generally supposed that their
civilization was African in its origin ;
and it was one of the problems of his
tory, how a race which, in all other
parts of Africa, had remained in barba-
rism for hundreds of thousands of years,
should in Egypt have developed such an
extraordinary civilization.
But we are only on the threshold of
Investigation Of the past. Bayard Tay-
lor has been writing to the New York
Tribune from Egypt touching the re-
markable discoveries made by Marietta
Bey, of antiquities which date back more
than 1900 years before the time of
Christ, and prior even to the building of
the pyramid Of Cheops. He says:
Passing on to the main hall, the first
objects sought were the wooden statues
belonging to the fourth dynasty THAT Of
Cheops, about 1926 B. c. discovered
not long since. The light from the cell
ing falling on the close-cropped crown of
the old village magistrate " (shekh ell
belled, as he is now called by the Egypt
ians), gave him the reality of living
figure, among so many which seemed to
be dead or asleep in the shadows. The
statue, which is about three feet eight
inches in height, is carved out of syca-
more wood, which has now become hard
and resonant as metal. 1t represents a
corpulent man of about As years of age,
holding in one hand long staff of Office,
while the other, clenched, hangs at his
side. His only garment is cloth wound
around the loins and falling to the knees.
The face is remarkably intelligent,
cheerful and benevolent-a Shakspear-
ian head, one might say, it gives such
evidence of large, rich and attractive
nature. The nose is slightly acquilinc,
with sensitive nostrils of only moderate
breadth, the lips large and half smiling,
equally open for joke or blessing,
and the cheeks and chin full, but firmly
rounded, and not puffy. The eyes, es-
pecially, are remarkable specimens of
the earliest pre-Raphaelite attempts to
represent nature. They are inserted.
and with fnesse Of invention which
almost seems higher art. The lashes
are thin rims Of bronze the whites are
formed of white Opaque quartz. the iris
of rock crystal, and in the centre Of
each is set small crystal with many
facets, which from every side reflects a
keen point of the human eye. Herr
Brugsch said to me: ''There are times
when the head absolutely lives;' and l
could well believe him. The statue is
probably 5000 years old. thus antedat-
ing by 300 years all other relics of art
which are in any way worthy of being
placed beside it.
will hasten through two intervening
chambers to reach what impressed me
as the most interesting group in the
whole collection. 1t was found only Is
months ago, in An ancient metropolis,
beside very singular pile of masonry,
called the Haram el-Kedab. or Lying
Pyramid, on the western bank of the
Nile, about so miles south of Cairo. On
broad pyramidal base rises perpen-
dicular, terminating in platform, from