The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-01
Was Adam he FIRST Man.

CHIr>oo, Feh. l . have been looking
ave-! tsh !iNaI:e sheets ot an I'm yoItalt
l,,k lhe wusk 1T Prot. i exanaer VIM
che. al he University "f Michigan the
wldei known aI,hor OF tSketche. 90 trea-
ton q ~:h,pua ueati>e winch i,,,t the enor-
nous >ae .: $500 copies. The ~-uij-ct N
the .t tieotulUg Volume ii "P}t-Adan.-
tie, lie author has iof HAIRY years d
bore 10 t>t ;b,">iI harmony between si!e
Stiptuae auI -c,encn. He = a ti,.n l., lever
in cu4.-i;-nty - at ;he Msthuli~s lc sta-
elo.i, atri - a.>n a man OF >c.cGcu, WI" j not
a'TaaI ia tuilrw the ~earch alter trlth With
efeo.Eer II uIay take ban. having a surc
conn }eu,t that ii can lever cad ham to
give up - faith N The CIeat":.
WAS DAN Tdn FIhsr MAN.
may DC regarded IL the enquiry soun linz
the key nnte uf the authors invest ~gatlun>.
TIE aI>"er at which, lie arrive j. etnphat:-
caI,r me-" AIaLl was ~iacrc!y Tho prozen-
itog o; t!e nations % B,bl,,a Il! ~i.n;ur,. he
vas not the anct~.UI Ut al. he I'd g. ct man
KIND. Al the tiuie oi Ills advent upon the
earth, humiH >ovIcty was already III an al
vanred cunGrtluD. it ha' rea -iei that stage
where If lad become >ettieu aud lupuiuus,
a!tiuu-h still retaining lis unlnlnn at Prot.
Nincfeii We're too patent u te ;.enrIuuel
by the Is ole historians, who confined their
account 10 the de>cendents o. Noah They
did not deny that other peoples existed con
tetuporaneouSlv, but on the contrary decl-
dedly implied 1t In many Of their illusions
aud reteIen e..
In ii CONSPICUOUS OF the principal types OF
mankind. the author groups the Various ex-
istiug ra.:es into three divisions based upon
a distinction 81; cu.or. They are FIRST. the
White Race; second. the Brown Race, and
third, the Black zee The last two races
he assumes TO nave been pre- Adam.tes.
A. to the priority ot the black o. brown
races In the ur,ier OF creation, the antnor Is
silent, but from IA branch vi the latter. the
family of DraviiIanS, then inhabi,lng Mes
0~potamia, he suppose, Adam 10 have
sprung. This first man OF the Hebrew
cosmogony, was OF a ruddy complexion and
the progenitor of the White race, which
through the sons OF Noah separated Into
three branches: the bionie family Organs
or .Japhethites); the brunette family (Shen-
ties or Semltc>) and the sunburnt family
(Hamltesl.
1t has been the COMMON understanding
that the names mention III
THE TENTH OF GENESIS,
which gives the gen aloey ri the sons of
Noah were applied to individuals merely,
but modem research sus,aIns the conclu-
sion that they were applied to cities. coun-
tries and peoi re-. With this interpreta-
ton the seneaiugy coaiurmo close with in
formation derived from other sources. His
,orlans and g-ographers have succeeded in
tixing with considerable ce"rainty the coui-
tries where moss of he poo. les .amtd in II Q
enumeration Were located. The area occu
pied by the whole of them was only about
one fifteenth of the surface of the earth
now populated The sons of Ham founded
,he Oldest known civilizations, forming set
Elements in the Holy Land, in portions of
Arabia, in Egypt, throughout northern AZ
RIGA, in Greece, Italy and the al jacent s.
lands. They still occupy all northern AtrI, a
to the Soudan, but none of the IL are oreyer
We're black. They we're me G Y sunburned IN
color and Il WAYS contra>ted themselves with
the black races. This theory does away
With the old and prevalent supposltlon
that the negro races are the descendants of
Ham.
One of the most interesting portions of
Prot, WincheIls arguments is that III which
he seeks to establish the
ORIGIN OF II RACES.
and their comparative rank in the scale of
humanity. 1t might be taken by the color
ed man as barring hard upon him AMI his
people, yet the author seems to be ANNA
~ - IL t'tltiN uNAIIiI sEii 'Npih-@ "itAA
the facts which science has presented him.
He regards the black races as strangely
ISOLATED from the rest Of mankind, "a broad
ethuic chasm separating them widely from
the descendants Of Adam In the 1898
years since the local deluge cut off all the
white race except the SONS OF Noah, the ne
gro type has undergone very little change.
1t Is to-day substantially what it was sos
years after the food, when was represented
Egyptian monuments which still exist. TO
allow time for its present wide diver
gence from the race of the Apollo Belviderc,
tsorigin must he referred back to an epoch
many thousands ofyears before the birth OF
Adam, and be sought in some humble pro
gemtor then struggling upward in the path
u Development.
RACES Do N0r D~FGENERATF.
asserts the author. Progress Is the law oi
organic life. Dotcriorations arc partia
and abnormal, and never become race wide
nor contIpant -ri1o Wbat tho nnpro paU