The Irish standard., 1898-05-28
INTERESTS THE ETHN0LOGIsTs
The Sage of Ninlnger Is a Big Lit
erary Iconoclast.
ORIGIN OF THE WHITE RACE
Land Of the Midnight Sun Is Its
Primitive Habitat.

Comes now Ignatius Donnelly with a
new theory which upsets the work Of a
century's research, and will set philolo-
gists and ethnologists by the ears. Here
tofore these 'ologists" have traced the
white race back through mlsty ages to
its primcval homo on the plains of In
da Mr.. DonnclIy, having married him
wifo whose ancestors sailed over the
whole road in their long serpents from
tho Scandinavian peninsula, begins t.
investigate the genesis of the northern
race, and now traces the white people
from the foggy Northland, down through
Europe, and on to India. In other
words, using almost the same evidences
| employed by those who have established
our Aryan origin, he procaims theory
! which exactly rcverscs tho successive
rrogrcssions of the falr-skinncd folk.
In matters of research OF this kind,
Mr.. Donnelly's information Is certainly
wide. and his art OF deduction certainly
lnnts and his Baconian cipher being
evidences of this fact. Consequently,
as picco of reasoning in defiance Of
generally accepted theories, his address
| given last week in Minneapolis, at the
| Turner hall celebration of May H. tho
| Norwegian Independence day, is of moro
than passing interest 1t is as follows:
The most striking and significant fact
in connection with this globe of ours is
the white race
| mean no dispaiasemcnt to the black
race, the yellow race, or the red race;
f, but the fact remains that for activity Of
| brain, for mental grasp, for physical dar-
| ing and endurance, for power to overrun
| tho world and conquer and COLOMBO it,
tho whlto race stands at the very FORE
| front of the sons of mon.
! 1t might be described as the bearded
praying race. 1t has the Hons name, as
soclatcd with the keen perception of tho
spiritual world and 4 close dependence
| upon the cver-prcscnt Cod.
Such a race cannot be the result Of
accident II Is too Intimately connect
cd with the life and destiny OF the planet
! for such an explanation OF its presence
A white man Is found at the beginning
| of every civilization. The Greeks, the
Etruscans, the hssyrians, the Pcrsans
and tho Romans were all white men.
! The oldest statues of Egypt have the
faces of our race. Even the Quichaus,
the founders of Peru were a fair
skinned people. with blue eyes and light
and even auburn hair. large heads and
largo bodies; while the Central Amori-
cans and Mcxicans traced back their civ
il.Zation to "Quc.Zalco"ti. a white man,
with strong formation Of body, broad
forehead, large eyes and flowing beard,
who wore a mitcr on his head and dress
with red Crosses" He came from the
east, from Europe. Humboldt believed
him to have been mn Irish missionary
probably Saint Brendan of CIOnfert, who
crossed the Atlantic in 545 and remained
somewhere on this side of the ocean for
seven years, ana returned to found q
college of 1900 monks in Ireland.
Modern research is proving that She
Chinese civilization was derived from the
Assyrians, u white people, with long,
| plated boards.
1t becomes very interesting to inquire
whore this white race comes from
Tho variations in the human family
plc-suppose vast lapse of time.
IL is my belief that the white race was
developed in obedience to the purposes Of
God, in some region where the air was
damp and the skies cloudy. They were
blcached by these conditions to their
present compleXion; while their brains
were trained and developed under some
ancient civilization; probably on lands
now beneath the Atlantic, of which "At-
lants." from which the ocean was named
was the last great fragment, and which
sank in u gigantic catastrophe about H.
600 years ago.
The white race is an European dcvel-
opment. In Asia. as in Persia and Hin
dostan, the tradition shows that it was
an intrusive stock from the northwest,
from the direction Of Europe, overrun-
ming the dark races of those countries, a
few thousand years ago.
While the researches of Du Chaillu and
others among the mounds and graves Of
tho Scandinavian peninsula show that
race that introduced the age of bronze
and the age of iron came from the south
west, that is, from the direction Of At
lantis, tho implements and ornaments Of
those metals are more abundant In
Norway than in Sweden, and more abun-
Int in southern Norway than in any