The Evolutionary Races of Color

64:1.1Prim­i­tive man made his evo­lu­tion­ary ap­pear­ance on earth a lit­tle less than one mil­lion years ago, and he had a vig­or­ous ex­pe­ri­ence. He in­stinc­tively sought to es­cape the dan­ger of min­gling with the in­fe­rior simian tribes. But he could not mi­grate east­ward be­cause of the arid Ti­betan land el­e­va­tions, 30,000 feet above sea level; nei­ther could he go south nor west be­cause of the ex­panded Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea, which then ex­tended east­ward to the In­dian Ocean; and as he went north, he en­coun­tered the ad­vanc­ing ice. But even when fur­ther mi­gra­tion was blocked by the ice, and though the dis­pers­ing tribes be­came in­creas­ingly hos­tile, the more in­tel­li­gent groups never en­ter­tained the idea of go­ing south­ward to live among their hairy tree-dwell­ing cousins of in­fe­rior in­tel­lect.

64:1.2Many of man’s ear­li­est re­li­gious emo­tions grew out of his feel­ing of help­less­ness in the shut-in en­vi­ron­ment of this ge­o­graphic sit­u­a­tion—moun­tains to the right, wa­ter to the left, and ice in front. But these pro­gres­sive An­don­ites would not turn back to their in­fe­rior tree-dwell­ing rel­a­tives in the south.

64:1.3These An­don­ites avoided the forests in con­trast with the habits of their non­hu­man rel­a­tives. In the forests man has al­ways de­te­ri­o­rated; hu­man evo­lu­tion has made prog­ress only in the open and in the higher lat­i­tudes. The cold and hunger of the open lands stim­u­late ac­tion, in­ven­tion, and re­source­ful­ness. While these An­donic tribes were de­vel­op­ing the pi­o­neers of the pres­ent hu­man race amidst the hard­ships and pri­va­tions of these rugged north­ern climes, their back­ward cousins were lux­u­ri­at­ing in the south­ern trop­i­cal forests of the land of their early com­mon ori­gin.

64:1.4These events oc­curred dur­ing the times of the third glacier, the first ac­cord­ing to the reck­on­ing of ge­ol­o­gists. The first two glaciers were not ex­ten­sive in north­ern Eu­rope.

64:1.5Dur­ing most of the ice age Eng­land was con­nected by land with France, while later on Africa was joined to Eu­rope by the Si­cil­ian land bridge. At the time of the An­donic mi­gra­tions there was a con­tin­u­ous land path from Eng­land in the west on through Eu­rope and Asia to Java in the east; but Aus­tralia was again iso­lated, which fur­ther ac­cen­tu­ated the de­vel­op­ment of its own pe­cu­liar fauna.

64:1.6950,000 years ago the de­scen­dants of An­don and Fonta had mi­grated far to the east and to the west. To the west they passed over Eu­rope to France and Eng­land. In later times they pen­e­trated east­ward as far as Java, where their bones were so re­cently found—the so-called Java man—and then jour­neyed on to Tas­ma­nia.

64:1.7The groups go­ing west be­came less con­tam­i­nated with the back­ward stocks of mu­tual an­ces­tral ori­gin than those go­ing east, who min­gled so freely with their re­tarded an­i­mal cousins. These un­pro­gres­sive in­di­vid­u­als drifted south­ward and pres­ently mated with the in­fe­rior tribes. Later on, in­creas­ing num­bers of their mon­grel de­scen­dants re­turned to the north to mate with the rapidly ex­pand­ing An­donic peo­ples, and such un­for­tu­nate unions un­fail­ingly de­te­ri­o­rated the su­pe­rior stock. Fewer and fewer of the prim­i­tive set­tle­ments main­tained the wor­ship of the Breath Giver. This early dawn civ­i­liza­tion was threat­ened with ex­tinc­tion.

64:1.8And thus it has ever been on Uran­tia. Civ­i­liza­tions of great prom­ise have suc­ces­sively de­te­ri­o­rated and have fi­nally been ex­tin­guished by the folly of al­low­ing the su­pe­rior freely to pro­cre­ate with the in­fe­rior.