Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1913-02-15
Evidence Tia! They Are Of the
| RanitiG Line.
Views CT D2 [!oN Ly3GYAA
Migration and Colonization Ch;ef
Among Many Causes Given 70,
Ama!g anlatioa OF Primitive Races
Anthrcpo! ogy o. African and Pacific
Islanders Pointed Out.
By JOHN i. BRUCE (CRip.

Islanders Pointed Out.
BY JOHN l.. BRUCE tCRiT
a great many modern writer's aII
not 4 few who wrote in Al earlier M.
Rod are disposed IL jiiscrrtlt the Atvi-
can origin Of the Egyptians. although
their coloe, customs ana other phys
len! characteristics clearly Indicate that
II any race OF people on earth came out
OF the loIn5 OF Ham these did.
Nothing seems 10 be more certain to
those who havc studied the question
closely. Dr. Felix von LuschNn. pro-
fessor Of unthropOlogy In Ike Univrr
slty OF Berlin. In IN admirable paper
before the first universal races con-
gresS. which met IN London In 1911
approaches the subject with more can
dor and honesty than usually clarNc>
tertZc tie writings or the uttcrances
of white men who have investigated
this subject
While We know or have been told
that all The Egyptians are not white
or brown or Of any OF the intcrmcdi-
ate colors between white and black.
we also know from those who have
Travelled ~ that country that the ma
tority Of It's inhabitants are black anG
possess al the physical characteristics
OF The African.
Cause Of Distinct Color Var;c:iao.
The color of the Egyptian results,
therefore. from tho admixturc Of the
blood OF Ea;%hboriEs; races With tie
sricNn hilnt5 n thocn fnIi,rarnI,o
blacks Professor Won Luschan says:
while the first varieties OF primitive
man were certainly formed and fixed
by long isolation. later variations and
races were cnusel by migration ana
colonization, as might perhaps best be
shown Ivy sketchiuG the anthropo,ogy
Of Africa and the Pacific islands.
Just SO Madagascar was peop!ed
about 900 or 1000 y. y. by Indoc25!En
colonists coming from &uma ira. so IN
told ages ago the first lima bitlnts Of
africa came from place somewhere
in southern Asia on the great line from
Gibraltar to Australia. No skulls or
skeletons OF these earliest Africans ara
"a yet known, but we may nope to find
them sooner or later. as we already
now know II good llauy sites or pA!"0~
Mthc Implements III various parts Of
tropical and southern Africa.
The anatomical qualities CT these
hrst Africans Will certainly be found
to differ from thUsc OF aboriginal AUS
tralians. bit In tens Of hundreds Of
thousands Of yeNrs the paleo'ithic AZ
rican evolved into real Negro. lie
exists IN two varietles-e tall variety
like the modern Nigritlun from tie
coast OF upper Guiuca and q small
one ike the bHshlDen and the pygines,
now known in SO many places in CEN
trail Afrlca.
Third ?ace Makoe lis appearance.
But I hayo already stated that we
are Us yet quite ignorant OF the real
homo OF these small races. To these
two oldest elements In Africa was add
ed ages afterWard. but still in prehs-
torlc tines, q third one, the Hanl.tic.
1t Is descended from the same ancient
GibraltarA ustraliu line. but was in Z
higher stage Of civilization.
These Bamites had already q greatly
refined language, With IN admjra BILE
grammar closely related to that OF tho
Semitic and lHdo- Cermanic languages
In Egypt they created more thau 5000
years ego the marvellous civilzati ton we
now admire rs the mother Of our own
Ancient Hamtc Influences con be
traced ell through Africa. In Abys
stnia. III Gala. Somali. and in Ma
sailand ne fiud even now Iamitic Ian
guages or ct least Hanltic grammar
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