The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-11-04


the earth" If we arc satisfied with tn
Bible account of mans origin, we may a
once dismiss all ideas of different race
s. of men. If every man is a descendant o
Adam, then there is but one human race
and its relationship is established by tn
ties of birth and blood.
If we rely on the Bible account of th'
flood, then Noah and his family Gin al
eight souls, were the sole survivors o
that event, and of their race, and they
and their descendants have peopled the
whole earth. Since then, and from these
/; survivors, have sprung all the varieties
of the human race, and we are aware ot
nothing that has changed their relation
ships Then we are all related, remote
) ly 1t Is true, but nevertheless, we are all
Of common race By birth and blood,
and whatever differences exist. they
must be attributable to other causes
Possibly it may be claimed that God
created other men besides Adam. We
have no account of any other creation of
man than that of our first parents in the
created either an individual, or a repre-
sentative pair of any other race of men.
Had the Creator designed that there
should be different and separate races OF
men, devoid of consanguinity, he would
have made them such, and had he made
them such, they would have remained
such. Had he done this, it is but rea-
| sonable to suppose that he would have
informed US of that fact, as well as of the
creation of Adam and Eve. If such was
the fact, why is it not mentioned in the
Bible? If this was the case, why should
we not be able to find somebody who en-
tertains such an idea? We find, now
and then a man who processes to be un-
willing to believe in the creation of even
one pair, but nobody who is willing to
believe in more than one such creation
so that this theory is found neither in
the Bible nor out of it, and if it was in
the Bible, it would rest on no stronger
ground than that Of the one pair To
deny that all men are of one blood, is
simply to state what we cannot prove, as
we'll as to deny the Bible, without being
able to give any reason for such denial,
or to advance any other theory that has
any foundation in reason, or even any
plausibility.
10 say that men always existed, gives
US no clue to their origin, but denies that
they ever had one. If men ever sprung
from matter, or from the lower order of
animals, why did this remarkable process
OF growth and production ever cease? IfI
there was ever first human pair brought
forth by such process, when was it F? |
Did men appear by chance? Did they
evolve from something, or from nothing? |
Did they throughout successive ages. |
gradually develop from some animal or
vegetable formation to the perfection of |
the human form, and become men by
degrees through the slow process of time?
how many were produced by this pro-
cess2 single pair? pair for every divi-
sion of the racer pair for each of sew
eral separate races? Why limit the num-
ber2 why not millions? and why is not
this work of evolution still going on
We have no knowledge that any of US
ever sprung from any other stock than
that of Adam, or that we ever had any
other ancestry. Any supposition that as
signs us different paternity, is but the
sheerest imagination, without any foun-
dation in fact, and in direct conflict with
our history, so far as the same has been
written, or handed down by tradition
To fbo Je of IL !
lightened portion of our race, the Bible
account of mans origin and history is
most satisfactory, and is by them relied
on as authentic. Any other theory is
entirely devoid of proof, involves deni-
al of the word of God, rests upon mere
speculation, and requires a much greater
stretch Of credulity for its belief and ac-
ceptance, than do the plain simple state
ments of Holy Writ. If we reject the
Bible theory, we reject every thing that
is known, and in searching for other pos
sibilities, We are left to invent mere the
ories, every man speculating as his un-
restricted fancy may direct.
1t may be asked, what possible rela-
tionship can exist between the highest
type Of the pure Caucasian, and the low
est type of the most degraded African
How is it possible, do you ask, that they
should have descended from the same
parental stock. Mentally and morally,
the difference between them is no greater
than that which exists between different
individuals of either of these divisions of
race, and if we except color, the physical
difference is scarcely greater, and even
in the matter of color the difference is
often but little less Among all the diff
ferent divisions of race, the shades of
color almost imperceptibly blend by so
slow and easy gradations as to render it
difficult if not impossible to determine
where the one begins, or the other ends,
and it is only by presenting the most
marked differences, that the contrast be-
comes SO strikingly apparent. Even up
on the theory of different races, we are
forced to admit that they have so mixed
and mingled, that there are millions
whom it would be impossible to assign to
any specific race, so that if at any time
they were not related they are now In
all the great essentials of form, birth,
blood, and reproduction, the human race
is one, each branch or division, as well as
every individual, being part of the great
family of the order of man Every