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led ey Pernlsssoa Of rHx ssrrspsr rvr<rxo
ing Angio-Saxon. Mr. Toombs simply
meant that the negro could not survive
m such contest of competency, ard for
his own hest interest he should Be spared
~ Matthew Arnold. the great English
man. spsaks Of Angio-Saxon stocks a.
the most moral races Of men that the
worh has vet seen. with the soundest
laws. the iea<t violent passions. the
fairest domestic and civil virtnes.~ Again
he wrote Science has nov made visi-
bic to everybody the great and prexnan,
elements of difference which lie IN race
Louis Azzssiz. the intimate friend of
Charles sumner, realized this keenly. In
1868 he wrote: Serial equality ! deem
at all times impracticahle-a natural inn
possibility from the very character Of
the negro race. Professo7
Ags.-ix heA earnestly to the opinio-
that the negro was utterly unfit for po-
lItical equality with the whites: he CON
sidered the experiment a. dangerous. II
not ultimately destructive o; free instr
tufions.
These are some Of the men who al
vanced the yarsiaman Idea before Var
daman was born Linroln did nos orig-
mate it, nor Toombs. nor A-zssix. noT
Arnold The idea developed in the very
cradle Of human existence. IL Nas an in
FAINT disease Of mankind. TIE earliest IN
solved riddle that the .un ever shone upon
The ancient Egyptians we're seeking an
answer 10 it. writing Of II On their -cEnlI>
and carving IL on thefr monuments FROM
seven To eighteen thousand years bsforr
America was discovered Their Iearus,l
men were even then telching the Var
daman Idea how TO shoot.
Human history begins in the valley %
the Nile Equatorial Africa, occupied hy
negroes. has been vagueiy known t. Eu-
ropeSns Tor about four ceuiur5e-. H..
portion occupied by Egyptians has a r.
corded history yaTiously estimated az
from five THOUSAND to seventeen thou
sand years before Christ Throughout
this staggering antiquity wc catch an
occasional glimpse OF the Ee-ro. de-
seribei in the writings OF scuipturr-i un
the Egyptian monuments. always a. a
savage. always A. slave.
The Egyptian and the Negro.
God planted the Egyptian and The ne-
gro side BY side. in that fsblei valley.
With equal opPortunith-s- The earth
was new; all thing~ Law before all uaea-
No man could borrow FROM his neigahor.
because his neighbor had nau-hf - ienL
No man cuuld learn from hIs neightor.
for his neixhhor had nau-ht 20 teach
Here was the virgin earth. fresh and
moist from the hand Of the Crsator-
There waS the mysterious SEA; and far
away IN the shining spares ot the uizht
taxr he s.s4 80 IL sk..~
-eas spread All cf the-e were 70 -
door Of hcpe stool bssasfy- or<r an. ~
color line was drawn
There were no tyrants ia those DAYS.
NJ masters and no slaves; there was
neither riches nor poverty Nothing had
been Preempted. nothing patented; their
were no Jim Crow cars; everything Nas
equal
Marx the lapse Of few eentgri-s
The achievements Of Egypt can scarcely
be catalcgued, they are 80 versatile and
80 magnificent The Egyptian bad
erected constitutional government. ere
ated the kingly dignity and safe-ylarded
the peoples rights lie was skilled IN
medicine and wrote works on astronomy.
architecture, anatomy - fragments of
which remain 10 this day. He had built
cities which are yet the wonder OF man
kind; he had devised an elaborate sys-
TEN Of religion, he had harnessed the
Nile, reared the pyramids and measured
the stars
But the negro's Jungle was still a
jungle. He had no government. no cit
les, no learning; he had no clothing. nc
arts, no aspirations He had dreamed
no dreams, hoped no hopes. induleed no
visions. He had desired nothing. pIanrei
nothing. executed nothing in any wise
more intellectual than the aeeomplish-
ments of the gOrilla-exeept his crude
superstition. a form Of serpent worship.
which no white intelligence has ever vet
been able % understand
His sole plaee in history i the oue ac-
corded hiE by his enterprising neighbo-
IA driven slave sculptured upon the
resting-plaee of kings
Left alone. eontented in his Jungle. he
had progressed backward and become A
feeder upon human fiesA. 4 polygamist,
without religion. family ties or nsorals
He was the inventor and promulgatar OF
slavery, the patentee and proprietor of
eannibalism-theseb being the twin insti-
tutions which be had contributed 70 hu-
man progress
The Egyptians observed these trait
OF the negro which had kept nina II a
stAndstifi. and promptly assigned the
reason Oddly enough. il i the sanss
reason given By Lincoln. Stanley, Liv-
ingstone, yardaman ct al ad infinifnm
the skull Of the negro Is different
They had the elongated skull. the bw.
prominent forehead. hollow tenphes.
thick lips, broad shoulders, salient breas;.
undeveloped lower part of the body~-
all minutely described by careful hards
which now repose as mummies in royal
| mausoleums beside the Nile
Modern science teaches that the su-
tures in the skulls Of the Cauea sian
races remain open and loosely lointed
unit. the late maturity of manhood thus
giving the white mans brain an oppor-
tunity TO expand into the highest posi-
BILE development Of mental power With
the African these sutures close at com
paratiyeIy early period in yoath; the
skull becomes permanently ossifed, of
extraordinary thickness - well-nigh i'm
permeable There Is but little differ
ence between children of the two races
Ii is no uncommon thing to see n negro
child that is exceedingly bright, learning
with ease But nature seems to have
said. Thus far shalt thou learn- and
no further" Development beyond n GER
tain point seems to be absolutely for
bidden by the physical, the purely me
ehanical structure of his skull Possibly
the Egyptians knew all these details,
possibly not but they did say -his skull
| Is different"
Curiousiy enough. we find these early
| Egyptians deploring the evil eject upon
their race caused by an admixture OF ne
gro blood IL seems uncanny in this
twentieth century of grace to hear this
far-away protest against miseegenatiou,
and to reflect how little humankind has
changed -
Thus complained the Egyptians:
The large number of black women
| found in the harems OF the rich, and
even in the huts Of the common people,
quickly impaired the purity OF the race.