, 1876-04-15

and lifted the brow and span in wavy
threads the hair of the white man, the same
force had wrought in the same way on the
orang, who shared his primeval home. The
parallel does not end here. Between the
white race and the black there are many inte
medpte races. Between gorilla and prang
there is no connecting link, But the strata
of Greece and France have lutely revealed
Two fossil apes, Dryopithicus and Mesopithi-
Gus. which, in certain features. were inter
mediate between gorilla and orang. Apes,
like elephants, ARE waning dynasty. Now,
from tie crust of the earth we read this law.
A liie pattern begins, unfolds into species,
eliminates, aud then dies tGo t'e pliaaIe
outlcdI3s Death strikes first ut the intcrmc'
,liatp forms, and the extremes survive long
sfter the come citing links have perishcd
So nature has wrought among her lower
animals, So she has wrought among her
man like apes. And so, going on to CON.
plete the parallel, abe is working among
men. Turn your eye to Asia Everywhere
you ste the white man pushing against the
olive. Look IT China. You &e an empire
of imheciitcs eau gtit IN the net Of their own
conservatism, and doomed to Clle because
they will not learn. Turn 10 the islands OF
the sens. Everywhere you sec humanity
smitten with death. Look ut North Amer
Ia, I'm IuIiun Ie f,lin,r Wuv liza N ant,w-
bank under the suns of June. He is melting
like gh,ccr in the breath of August. The
doom of the American Indian Is the doom OF
every savage race save one. Death has
struck IN to the very bones. DR.. Scatcr, an
eminent Lrndon scientist, has made studies
of tue skeletons Ut all savage races, and found
evi,unce in certain anatomical irregularities
that every savage race save one Is drawing
near its end. That one is the Kattir, race
most divergent from our own. Nowhere
shall we lind tor man an iuiraction OF natures
method with the animal. Everywhere We
shall tiuu her treating the human hIdy as
any otner b,ly save as higher
powers Ut mlnd BREAK IN Oh her methods.
Now the discovery ~ DryopIth.cus anti
Mesopihcus in tertiary STRATA, C'Hsnsctlps
gorilla and or.ng by intermediate hrms,
indicates the derivation ct ihese man .lke
apes from ono common ancestral form. And
Inc parallel wc have established between
these iwo man Ike apes and the two most
divergent races Of man would indicate the
Derivation Ot these races IN IL smllar way
ron culnMon ancestral stock. E,turI they
ARE branches ir,jm u culumun trunk, or eacn
is itself trunk. For the black race could
not have been derived from the white, aud
tile white could not have been derived from
the black, Not diet, not climate, not habits
ot lite, outw working through million years,
could bleach black race into white; and
neither habitat nor habits could IN Il million
times million years stain white race black,
| II we are branches OF II common trunk, what
was that trunk The speaker drew u face
with dowslnntiug eyes, t,t nose, retrcnting
forehead, and high check b0nse. This head
when furnished with long shocks OF hair anh
heavy beard was tlmt Of n lion) He had
drawn such head not 10 make his chalk
intimate that lion stands in the ancestral
line ol MAD. liz had drawn it only tn show
u certain sssenibIage oi fealurva There was
tho devastating eye, tho Hat nose, the
retrea,iDg forehead, and the high check
bones. These features, united in the animal,
are distributed among men. You have seen
the devastating eye IN the ChinamaD. the
the rctrea,ing forehead and fat nose in the
negro, the high check bone in the Indian
and Calmuck. We have seen the dawn.
slanting eye pictured on the tombs and tenn
pies of Egypt and the palace walls of Asyvia.
In Greek art before the times OF Phlias we
find the human face represented with down.
santing eyes, fat nose, re,rra,Dg forehead,
u high cheek bone. Now, it is law which
holds in natural history that II species of
wide geographical range is Of ancient type.
The same law should apply to features.
| AHS o'""hbS NJC 10 iVuHN III DhNll
American Indian and in The Chinumnn.
1t is fOun,l in Asia and America today, and
was found in Asia and Europe and Africa
ut the dawn of history.
II ~ ia u feature widely distributed
through space and time MS well. We infer
TINT it isa very ancient feature, a feature
peculiar to the primal stock. Now when
strongly pronounced this slant of the eye is
in correlation with other features, as the Hat
nose, retrcating forehead and advanced
mouth. The Greek just becoming q Crock
had all these features. In the earliest Aryan
art, men with this assemhlage of features
were represented in the act OF eating.
THEY WE'RE MUNCHING LIKE ANIMALS.
1t is safe to infer that the Arynn Just he
coming an Aryan had all these features And
If there was common trunk from which the
Aryan branch and the Negritto branch III.
vcrged--and we believe there was --s,tch
features characterized the oId Adam himself
~-~lhe man Just becoming man. How we're