The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-06-01
SCIENTIST CLAIMS
FIRST MAN BLACK
WHITES HE SAYS CANNOT HOLD
TROPICS AND DOOM OF WHITE
MAN is INEVITABLE.

London, May SLIT has been sat
isfactorily proved-on paper-that the
original man was black and tha. the
white race can never permanently
accIima.ize in the black mans coun.
try. German scholars have lately
written learnedly on these subjects.
and the gist of their conclusions
has been published.
Now comes an Fnglishman. Lionel
w. Lyde, professor of economic ge-
ography at London university. with
the theory that the white man is
doomed to vanish off the face of the
earth. yielding to the colored race.
Prof Lyde believes that the origi.
nal color of the human skin was
dark brown The variations of tha-
color are the results of the weaken
ING or strengthening of the pigment
of skin coloring, under different eli.
matte conditions, the object of the
pigment being The protection of the
protOplasm beneath the skin from dis.
organization by abnormal and there
fore, dangerous rays of light.
White Skin Dangerous.
The effects of such rays on a man
unprotected by a dark skin are. he
says, nervous shock, productive some
times of total prostration, and fre-
quently leading to eXcesses, alcoholic
and other kinds. Thus the original
brown skin has been developed to
black in those races living in the
tropics and constantly subjected to
dangerous rays while on the other
hand those races whose home is far
from the equator have lost most OF
the pigment, as the absence of any
great beat renders it unnecessary,
while white is more advantageous
for the conservation of heat.
Prof. Lyde holds that in this way
the race homes OF mankind can be
divided into different tones, that OF
the black people being on and around
the equator, and those of the other
peoples farther from the equator in
proportion to the weakness of their
skin co.oring. The zone in which the
white man can live under normal
conditions has he says, for its south.
ern boundary latitude 50 degrees. that
of Copenhagen, and he can only set
tie and thrive in other zones by
taking steps to make himself artifi-
clally fit by such a laborious process
as puts 1t out of the question.
Whites Cannot Hold Tropics.
Taking ordinary precautions and
aided by all the great modern knowl.
edge of the microscopic diseases of
the tropics, it is impossible for the
white man after two years of accli-
matiZatiOn to live in the tropics even
more immune from tropical diseases
than the black. But the period of
this immunity is not much longer
than seven years which the deteri
Grating effects of the abnormal hea
on skin not naturally protected be-
sin to show themselves and to rem
der the system open TO the attack
of any OF the great tropical diseases.
malaria, yellow fever and cholera.
Tins permanent settlement Of the
tropics by the white is out of the
question
But on the other hand, Prof. Lyda
says, the pigment while being abso-
lutely necessary in the tropics, is not
dangerous, has no damaging effects
in colder attitudes. The professor
concludes.
Pigment is no danger, though |
in high attitudes; while |
the absence of it is fa.al in low a,ti-
tudes. without precautions which no .
ordinary white man will systematic |
ally adopt, and therefore the dark
can intrude permanently into the
domain OF the fair with more success
than the fair can intrude into the
domain of the dark
Add TO this the rapid increase
IF the darker races. compared with /.
the slow increase of whites, and L
he doom OF the white man is inev-
tably suggested
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