The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-06-01
THE WHITE RACE
ITS ORIGIN AND IT'S GREATNESS.
Speech Delivered By Hon. Ixnatiua
D0nnelly at Turner Hall, Be.
fore the s.SOns of Norway"
May II, 1893.
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The most striking and significant fact in
connection with this globe Of ours is the
white race.
I mean no disparagement to the black
race, the yellow race, or the red race; but
the fact remains that for activity Of brain,
for mental grasp. for physical daring and
endurance, for power to overrun the world
and conquer and colonize it, the white race
stands at the very forefront of the sons of
men.
1t might be described as the bearded,
praying race 1t has the lions NAME assoc
ciated with the keen perception of the
spiritual world and close dependence upon
the ever-present God.
Such a race cannot be the result Of ac-
c:dent 1t is too intimately connected 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 Etrus-
cans, the Assyrians, the Persians, and the
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 large bodies;' while the Central Ameri-
cans and Mexicans traced back their civli-
cation to "QuetZalcoati," a white man,
with strong formation of body, broad fore
head. large eyes and flowing beard, who
wore a mitre on his head and dressed in a
long. white robe, covered with red crosses"
He came from the East, from Europe.
Humboldt believed him to have been an
Irish missOnary-prObabl Saint Brendan,
Of Clonfert, who crossed the Atlantic in $40
and remained somewhere on this side of the
ocean for seven years, and returned to found
college Of three thousand monks in Ire
land.
Modern research is proving that the Chi
nese civilization was derived from the AS
syrians, white people, with long, plated
boards.
1t becomes very interesting to inquire
where this white race comes from.
The variations in the human family pre-
suppose vast lapses of time.
1t is my belief that the white race was
developed, in obedience to the purposes of
damp and the skies cloudy. They were
bleached by these conditions to their pre-
sent complexion; while their brains were
trained and developed under some ancient
civilization; probably on lands now beneath
the Atlantic, Of which Atlantis" from
which the ocean was named, was the last
great fragment, and which sank in a gil
gantic catastrophe, bout II, 600 years ago.
The white race is an European develop
ment. In Asia, as in Persia and Hindostan,
the tradition shows that 1t was an intrusive
stock from the northwest, from the direc-
ton OF Europe, over-running the dark
races of those countries, a few thousand
years ago.
While the researches Of Du Challn and
others among the mounds and graves of the
scandinavian peninsular, show that the
race that introduced the age of bronze and
the age Of iron came from the southwest
that is from the direction Of Atlantis. The
implements and ornaments of those metals
are more abundant in Norway than in Swed-
than in any other part of the country. This
shows that the civilized, Woodworking race
invaded the country from the Atlantic re-
gion. The researches in Ireland reveal a
similar state of facts.
The fact that no white people are found
IN Asia or Africa, whose traditions do not
point towards Europe for their origin tes-
tines to the same conclusions The Egyp-
tlans said their ancestors came from the
west; the 1tlndooS from the northwest
probably by way of Persia.
Whatever has occurred in the historical
period presumably occurred in the pre-his-
toric ages.
In the remote past We see waves of migra-
ton sweeping out from the northwest of
Europe-from Norway, Sweden and Den
mark and overlooking and flooding the reg
and on until arrested by the ocean laving
the southern shores of HindoStan.
English Dutch and German are but dia-
iects OF the Scandinavian. And in broad
or and more ancient sense the founda ton of
the languages Of Persia and India is found
in the same great tongue. A few instances
demonstrate that Sanscrit. the primal
speech of the Hindoos, is closely united
with the Scandinavian language. The fol
lowing taS