Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-23
Origin of inc White Man

There may be remains of stone o.
 whites, but there are no certain rer,si.s of white savages of a low order W may well doubt if there ever We're s-,e white savages 1t IS more likely tha. .l! white men were developed late i, ,Ie race history of the world from ances,c-' already far on Tn civilization in faa, that this civilization, with its lmpror.5 supply of food, its better hOUsins, ,S5 clothing, its higher lntellectualitv v-- one man factor in the development -s the white type. Here, however. II r,,.1,
 be remembered that there Is not a whit.
 race In Inc sense ln which the-s k Carib race-types, and even the same Is,,
 guages, such as English or GermgT
 may be spoken by men as blonde s,
 Danes or as dark as Sicilians. Tn. fsi-
 haired Scandinavian type has sOmetbin., of the detinlteness of a true race b1t -s one travels south there appear, not waT
 defined sub-races, but darkenlng y-aJs
 tiOns of bewildering cOmplexitv. Tbs
 most reasonable attempt to solve tt;s
 intricate problem Is Prof Huxley's via-'
 that the white race Is made up of fs;.
 whites of the northern or Scandlnavi--
 type, and dark whites who are the r.sTI. of ages of mixture between the fsi-
 whites and the darker nations. tboD.,I
 1t is perhaps hardly prudent to Inn,
 these dark ancestors to one variety as Ls
 does
 If now we cannot trace the white man
 down to the low level of primitive ssv
 agery, neither can We assign to birB h..
 great upward movement by winch tbs l |. T-s
 not to the Aryan of Persia nor to tbe
 Semitic of Syrla that the art of wri.ir',
 belongs winch brought on the new a[. of culture. The Egyptian whose hiero. slyphics may be traced passing fror,
 picture into alphabet had his race-aIIs- in the people of north Africa, e,peciaIIy the Berbers, of the north c1ss. people whom no elasticity of stbro ] loglcal system would bring into tS.
 white race. Of the race-type of the 57I BabylOuians, who shaped likewise rui- pictures into wsdge-phonetIc sigrs. -. know but little yet; at any rate tbai- speech was not Aryan, and the cymps-l- | son of LenOrment and Sayce have -iv4v some ground for connecting t with The | Turanian language belonging Co a gr1.u | Of nations of whom one. the CLiue5s had in remote antiquity, worked out A | civilization of which the deveIopmeuto' o'
 an imperfect phonetic writing form-i part The white races had in remote
 antiquity risen high in barbaric cul. u-s | when they contact with the darker 1a. | tiOus who invented writing, opened t5
 them new intellectual paths. h. | Greeks found ID the ancient Egyptilp | theology the gods of the four elements
 but they transferred this thought ircn | theology to philosophy, and develop | from IL the thso<y of elements and atom.
 which IS the bases of modern chcmIstry
 They found Babylonians building ter | raced temples Co the seven planets n tue order of the periods, and this con nection again they transferred from -s- | hgious to science. founding on u the dOctrlns of planet-sphere which grew | into mathematical astronomy. lt may | moderate our somewhat overweau!ures- | innate of our powers to remember tlit | the white races cannot claim Co be tle | original creators of literature and | scienc, but from remote antiquity they | began to show the combined power 4
 acquiring and developing culture which | has made them dominant among man. | kind.-E. E. Taylor, in Nature.