THE FOUR DIVISIONS of MANKIND
The African One of the Purest Types
Of the four great primary divisions of the human race, the Aryan, Mongolian, Semitic, and Hamitic, there are three that preserve their racial type and have been little changed by intermixtures. These are the Semitic, or Jews; the Hamitic, or Africans, and the Mongolians, or Chinese.
The Aryan division spreading out from the Caucasus Mountains by way of India, and thence westward, became split up into a hundred different races, with varying peculiarities and racial differences, becoming as they are today English, German, French, Irish, Scotch, Swedes, Finns, Russians, Hindus, and a hundred other varying races that have intermingled until the Aryan designation as a division of the human race is entirely lost.
All these split Aryan races have become centralized in the United States, where they are continuing their intermingling, and getting farther away from the Aryan type.
On the contrary, the three other divisions, the Jews, the Africans, and the Chinese, have maintained during all the ages since their creation, their original characteristics, with only slight intermixtures, so slight, indeed, that they are barely noticeable.
Historically, the races that make up the Aryan splits, are a mere breath on the surface of the ages of time, when compared with the other three divisions of the human race. Long before the ancestors of many of them composed the barbarian hordes that thundered at the gates of the Roman capitol, and finally effaced it from the face of the earth, the Jew, the African, and the Chinaman, were in possession of the evidences of high civilization, wise government, and splendid monuments, and cultivated the arts of peace. The Aryan posterity, on the other hand, were warlike, and became conquerors of the others, appropriating their arts, and are still digging among the ancient ruins of splendid empires, wondering what manner of people could have perfected such noble works.
All the races had many forward and backward movements, with the dominance always with the warlike Aryan blood.
But today, in the United States, the Hamitic, the African, if you please, has found and utilized the civilizing arts of the Aryan, and is moving upward toward the pinnacle of the same civilization which is essentially modern and original, and which retains the ancient civilization of the other three great divisions of the human family, in its museums as objects of curiosity and admiration. At the same time he is maintaining his racial unity.
MAKING THE BURDEN OF LIFE MORE ENJOYABLE
There is no going back, now, there can be nothing but advance toward progress and higher civilization, that is, in the more adequate and efficient means of making the burden of life more enjoyable and easier.
In one thing only is there doubt as to our progress, and that is in human development, and racial perfection. The scientists and thinkers of the age are impressed with the fact that there is degeneracy, or at least, “recession,” as it is termed, which means a going back to some unknown evil type that will operate disastrously upon civilization, morals, and general well-being of individuals.
By a remarkable unanimity of opinion, these marks of recession and degeneracy, sometimes called “delinquency,” are limited to the posterity of the Aryan type. Superhuman efforts are making to avert catastrophe by what is known as “selection,” that is, by limiting intermarriages to those who shall have been declared physically and mentally capable of assuming the marriage state. But in the opinion of many, this will still be a further remove from the pure Aryan type, and thus be always descending the human scale. At any rate, there can be no reversion to an ancestral type, because the ancestor himself is mixed, and there is no pure strain to culture up to.
But with the Jews and Africans, there is no such question, because the type remains as it was in the beginning, and it is very easy to make a selection.
THE JEWS HAVE AGES OF LEARNING
The Jews understand this matter and they maintain their own racial standards which are the highest and best. Now, it is up to the African, the ten millions of them in the United States, to adopt the standards of excellence proper to their dignity, and to their purity as one of the original or primary divisions of mankind.
The Jews have ages of learning and wisdom to fall back upon, and the African, although interrupted in his advance, by ages of repression, nevertheless has the ages of high civilization, the reigns of the Queens Candace, the learning of the Egyptians from Ethiopian magi, and the startling wonders and marvels of buried cities and high culture recently unearthed in Africa as a foundation. These ought to be an incentive to him to regain the lost prestige. He has the opportunity now, and there is no one to stay his march upward, on the contrary, there are helping hands everywhere, and incentives such as no other race in the world ever had or will ever have.
He may look back to his ancestral days with as much pride as any other race, and he may point to the magnificent ruins of the departed glories of his race to prove that his origin is to be found in as high a type of civilization as compared to any other race.