The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18
RESULTS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY OF DIFFERENT RACES
The Caucasion and the Neg no Writer Who Rejects
the Belief That the Latter is of the
Blood of ADAM

tue eye, Wnlcn was accurately Qe-
scribed nearly sixty years ago by DIR.
Samuel A. Cartwright, of Natchez,
Mississippi. 1t is too long TO be re-
produced here. The entire chapter on
"Monogeny" is Vely instructive. Che
chapte on Evolution is lucid and
very informing. In the chapter on
The SkulP' there is much TO arrest
the attention. 1t is shown that cult
walton does not enlarge the skull of
the real negro, and that
there has been no material pro-
gress in the inferior race for five
thousand years. DR.. Michel has furn-
ished peculiarities of skull, including
both Uranium and skull, which is new
even to anatomists. See page 81. DR..
Mott for twenty years has looked in
vain to prove that cultivation could
enlarge the brain. The author of the
book l am considering, states that the
skull OF the African in the United
States, after the lapse of ten gener-
atoms. is the same in structure and
capacity as that of his brother In
Africa" He is very interesting here.
but / cannot copy The brain of the
African approximateS that of the
gorilla more closely than it does that
of the Caucasian" "a negro with
powers of abstract reasoning ana ca
pablo of dealing with questions of
philosophy and science beyond the
average Caucasian has never been
known" page 90 Dr.. Van Evrie
in 1861 published book entitled Ne
groes and Negro Shaving" 1t was
published in New York. He says:
THE negro brain is incapable Of
grasping ideas. or deal in all abstract
truth, as absolutely SO as the white
child. etc. The negro is, therefore.
incapable of progress, single gem
Grafton being capable of all that mill
lions of generations in Africa isolated
from white men. are exactly now az
they were when the Hebrews escaped
from Egypt and where they must be
millions of years hence; if left to
themselves" Archbishop Whateley. of
the English Established Church, ana
of much distinction, held that the
"Adamic race has always been the
representative of civilization, mental.
moral and religious progress, for 1t is
said that mo barbarouS 1eople have
ever become civilized of themselves
Professor Keane testifieS that mo
fulI-blood negro has ever been distin-
guished as a man of science, a poet.
or an artist" and that 1.-THE mental
deficiencies of races are as great as
the physical" Sir John Lubbock.
eminent Englishman and author.
thinks that conscience is entirely
wanting in savages." See pages 15S,
tianity and the Non-Adamite. 1t is
too full and important to be handled
here. The great African traveller Sir
Henry NJ. Stanley. says that during
mis- wonderful journey Of seven thous-
and miles across Africa "he did not
meet With one individual who had
ever heard the Gospel" Sir Samuel
Baker. another great African explorer.
said of the most intelligent chiefs he
met on the Upper Nile" In this
naked savage there was not even q
superstition upon which to found 4
religious belief" The author of An
thropology' says that christianity
has existed in Africa more than eigh-
teen centuries, but it has had no in
fiuence on the negro. The history of
the negro is precisely that of tho
brute; always stationary. without pow
er to elevate or degrade itself" The
question of the soul I do not touch
on here, but the book treats of it With
fulness.
In the "Anthropological Review"
for 1863, table appeared furnished by
S. r Hunt. showing the comparative
weights of brains of white, pure ne
groes, and mixed breed. The average
white brain is ,424 grammes; the av-
erage black, 1884 grammes. DR.. Mott.
it is stated, long ago noticed that mu-
latoes are the shortest lived of any class
of the human family" The racial bar
riers must stand. The conditions in
Hayti are pointed out. They had a
century of freedom, and now they
have gone back into cannibalism and
other disgusting habits. | have be-
fore me an account in the New York
Herald of Dec. IS, 1888, giving a
fearful description of the horrors ex-
listing then in Hayti. See pages 282.
2S7) If you would obtain important
1,xA rfaY. iY,c,y n
read the work / have quoted or cited
from. 1t is surely worthy OF patient
examination. I am not presenting my
own conclusions, but giving the views
of men of science. theologians and
scholars. For a long time in France,
England. Canada and the United
States men of ability and scientific at
OF race origin, and have concluded
that the white race is not of a COM
mon origin with the Red, Yellow and
Black races. 1t is an interesting sub
ject and cannot be dismissed with
pooh-pooh or Indignation or assump-
ton. 1t must be patiently, carefully.
exclusively studied. Principal DaW-
sons work is a large octave, and con-
tains much that is really worthy of
any intelligent mind. All the white
race wherever found are of one blood.
There are some theological points [
might refer to, but as I am neither
making an argument of my own nor
giving an eX-cathedra opinion, l do
not touch upon them here. l appre-
bend that the opinions of most men of
science are confined to the negro race
proper as found in Africa-the origi-
nal negroes--and don't embrace the
mixed, hybrid or mongrel output.
Many who are ciassed as negroes, are
one fourth, or a half. or three
fourths white. and hence laws that
govern the original African negro
may not apply to the hybridized
crowd.
The forecasts of politicians AMI
newspapers are SO generally false and
ridiculous, that it is prudent to give
them but little consideration. The re-
cent election was very productive in
prophets and most of them turned out
to be false" prophets. All through
history it is seen how men We're
misled and foretOld results that
never came. They are so baseIess thar
they remind us of the we'll known Eng
lish writer of hundred years ago who
lectured in London to a gathering OF
educated hearers. in which he declared
that for a steamboat to cross the At
lantic ocean was an impQSsibility AT
the very hour in which he was speak