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Paper 64

The Evolutionary Races of Color

Life Carrier

5. Origin of the Colored Races

64:5.1500,000 years ago the Bado­nan tribes of the north­west­ern high­lands of In­dia be­came in­volved in an­other great racial strug­gle. For more than one hun­dred years this re­lent­less war­fare raged, and when the long fight was fin­ished, only about one hun­dred fam­i­lies were left. But these sur­vivors were the most in­tel­li­gent and de­sir­able of all the then liv­ing de­scen­dants of An­don and Fonta.

64:5.2And now, among these high­land Ba­don­ites there was a new and strange oc­cur­rence. A man and woman liv­ing in the north­east­ern part of the then in­hab­ited high­land re­gion be­gan sud­denly to pro­duce a fam­ily of un­usu­ally in­tel­li­gent chil­dren. This was the San­gik fam­ily, the an­ces­tors of all of the six col­ored races of Uran­tia.

64:5.3These San­gik chil­dren, nine­teen in num­ber, were not only in­tel­li­gent above their fel­lows, but their skins man­i­fested a unique ten­dency to turn var­i­ous col­ors upon ex­po­sure to sun­light. Among these nine­teen chil­dren were five red, two or­ange, four yel­low, two green, four blue, and two in­digo. These col­ors be­came more pro­nounced as the chil­dren grew older, and when these youths later mated with their fel­low tribes­men, all of their off­spring tended to­ward the skin color of the San­gik par­ent.

64:5.4And now I in­ter­rupt the chrono­log­i­cal nar­ra­tive, af­ter call­ing at­ten­tion to the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince at about this time, while we sep­a­rately con­sider the six San­gik races of Uran­tia.