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

tire height cannot be less than $50 feet.
This singular structure has never been
opened, or even adequately examined,
but the conjecture of some arch
biologists that it was built by
King Sne-frou, the predecessor
of Cheops, is possibly con-
firmed by Varieties discovery of the
two painted limestone statues, which
belong to the third dynasty.
The inscriptions show that they rep
resent the prince Ra-Hotep and the
princess Nefer-t, who may have been
either his wife or sister. The size Of
life, they sit side by side on plain, mas
sive chairs; but the attitudes are easy
and natural, and the hands are not laid
upon the knees. Only the drapery-a
loin-cloth for the man, and simple
white garment, without folds, for the
woman-is stiffly and awkwardly rep
resented. The muscles of the chest and
limbs, the joints, hands and feet, are
carefully modelled, and the heads might
be bold y set beside the best portrait
busts ever made. Ra-Hotep's flesh is
painted fresh, ruddy color, and
Nefer-t's pale olive; yet the features
indicate that they belonged to the same
race. Nothing can be finer than the
delicate individuality expressed in the
two faces. His is strong, proud, as
sorting authority; hers, kind, sympa-
thetic, yet carried with the air of one
to whom respect is inevitably paid.
The type is the same as that of the
village magistrate" but greatly finer
and nobler. The eyes are inserted in
the same manner, and are Of even more
admirable, workmanship; for they fair
ly CLEAN and sparkle, and there are
moments when human intelligence
suddenly lights up the face.
! 1t is remarkable circumstance, and
one over which the ethnologists will
doubtless break their heads, that these
remains of the earliest, freest and high
est art yet discovered in Egypt should
represent a quite different physical
! type from that of the later dynasties.
That they are Caucasian or Aryan, is
evident at the first glance; that they
possessed intelligence, energy and those
moral qualities which we express by
the word character seems equally
certain. Looking at Ra-Hotep's face,
your first impression is: S'Here is a
gentleman - The remains of the
ancient empire suggest a certain amount
Of observation-disclosures development
among both refers and people; those
of the later empire, on the contrary, are
rigidly stamped with the seal Of a priest
~ despotism.
it follows that the founders of the civil
ization of Egypt were white men--men
of our own race and blood; and that
in later ages they became from mixture
with Nubians and Semites the mongrel
race known to Herodotus.
But it does not follow, because
through superior vital force and brain
power this white race is the master
race of the world that therefore they
should, as in the old time, destroy or
subjugate all other races. A new ele-
ment comes into play the element of
Christianity, whose basis is justice
We must not commit injustice simply
because we have the brute power to do
so. AS children of one Father, there
fore Paul was right when he said, "Of
one blood He made all the nations of
men who dwell on the face of the EARTH"
and we have no right therefore to en-
slave the negro or destroy the red man,
simply because We may have the power
to do so. The white race of to-day is
the Norway rat plus the spirit of
Christianity.