The Planetary Adams

51:4.1The race of dom­i­nance dur­ing the early ages of the in­hab­ited worlds is the red man, who or­di­nar­ily is the first to at­tain hu­man lev­els of de­vel­op­ment. But while the red man is the se­nior race of the plan­ets, the suc­ceed­ing col­ored peo­ples be­gin to make their ap­pear­ances very early in the age of mor­tal emer­gence.

51:4.2The ear­lier races are some­what su­pe­rior to the later; the red man stands far above the in­digo—black—race. The Life Car­ri­ers im­part the full be­stowal of the liv­ing en­er­gies to the ini­tial or red race, and each suc­ceed­ing evo­lu­tion­ary man­i­fes­ta­tion of a dis­tinct group of mor­tals rep­re­sents vari­a­tion at the ex­pense of the orig­i­nal en­dow­ment. Even mor­tal stature tends to de­crease from the red man down to the in­digo race, al­though on Uran­tia un­ex­pected strains of gi­antism ap­peared among the green and or­ange peo­ples.

51:4.3On those worlds hav­ing all six evo­lu­tion­ary races the su­pe­rior peo­ples are the first, third, and fifth races—the red, the yel­low, and the blue. The evo­lu­tion­ary races thus al­ter­nate in ca­pac­ity for in­tel­lec­tual growth and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment, the sec­ond, fourth, and sixth be­ing some­what less en­dowed. These sec­ondary races are the peo­ples that are miss­ing on cer­tain worlds; they are the ones that have been ex­ter­mi­nated on many oth­ers. It is a mis­for­tune on Uran­tia that you so largely lost your su­pe­rior blue men, ex­cept as they per­sist in your amal­ga­mated “white race.” The loss of your or­ange and green stocks is not of such se­ri­ous con­cern.

51:4.4The evo­lu­tion of six—or of three—col­ored races, while seem­ing to de­te­ri­o­rate the orig­i­nal en­dow­ment of the red man, pro­vides cer­tain very de­sir­able vari­a­tions in mor­tal types and af­fords an oth­er­wise unattain­able ex­pres­sion of di­verse hu­man po­ten­tials. These mod­i­fi­ca­tions are ben­e­fi­cial to the prog­ress of man­kind as a whole pro­vided they are sub­se­quently up­stepped by the im­ported Adamic or vi­o­let race. On Uran­tia this usual plan of amal­ga­ma­tion was not ex­ten­sively car­ried out, and this fail­ure to ex­e­cute the plan of race evo­lu­tion makes it im­pos­si­ble for you to un­der­stand very much about the sta­tus of these peo­ples on an av­er­age in­hab­ited planet by ob­serv­ing the rem­nants of these early races on your world.

51:4.5In the early days of racial de­vel­op­ment there is a slight ten­dency for the red, the yel­low, and the blue men to in­ter­breed; there is a sim­i­lar ten­dency for the or­ange, green, and in­digo races to in­ter­min­gle.

51:4.6The more back­ward hu­mans are usu­ally em­ployed as la­bor­ers by the more pro­gres­sive races. This ac­counts for the ori­gin of slav­ery on the plan­ets dur­ing the early ages. The or­ange men are usu­ally sub­dued by the red and re­duced to the sta­tus of ser­vants—some­times ex­ter­mi­nated. The yel­low and red men of­ten frat­er­nize, but not al­ways. The yel­low race usu­ally en­slaves the green, while the blue man sub­dues the in­digo. These races of prim­i­tive men think no more of uti­liz­ing the ser­vices of their back­ward fel­lows in com­pul­sory la­bor than Uran­tians would of buy­ing and sell­ing horses and cat­tle.

51:4.7On most nor­mal worlds in­vol­un­tary servi­tude does not sur­vive the dis­pen­sa­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince, al­though men­tal de­fec­tives and so­cial delin­quents are of­ten still com­pelled to per­form in­vol­un­tary la­bor. But on all nor­mal spheres this sort of prim­i­tive slav­ery is abol­ished soon af­ter the ar­rival of the im­ported vi­o­let or Adamic race.

51:4.8These six evo­lu­tion­ary races are des­tined to be blended and ex­alted by amal­ga­ma­tion with the progeny of the Adamic up­lifters. But be­fore these peo­ples are blended, the in­fe­rior and un­fit are largely elim­i­nated. The Plan­e­tary Prince and the Ma­te­rial Son, with other suit­able plan­e­tary au­thor­i­ties, pass upon the fit­ness of the re­pro­duc­ing strains. The dif­fi­culty of ex­e­cut­ing such a rad­i­cal pro­gram on Uran­tia con­sists in the ab­sence of com­pe­tent judges to pass upon the bi­o­logic fit­ness or un­fit­ness of the in­di­vid­u­als of your world races. Not­with­stand­ing this ob­sta­cle, it seems that you ought to be able to agree upon the bi­o­logic dis­fel­low­ship­ing of your more markedly un­fit, de­fec­tive, de­gen­er­ate, and an­ti­so­cial stocks.