The Evolutionary Races of Color

64:6.1On an av­er­age evo­lu­tion­ary planet the six evo­lu­tion­ary races of color ap­pear one by one; the red man is the first to evolve, and for ages he roams the world be­fore the suc­ceed­ing col­ored races make their ap­pear­ance. The si­mul­ta­ne­ous emer­gence of all six races on Uran­tia, and in one fam­ily, was most un­usual.

64:6.2The ap­pear­ance of the ear­lier An­don­ites on Uran­tia was also some­thing new in Sa­ta­nia. On no other world in the lo­cal sys­tem has such a race of will crea­tures evolved in ad­vance of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of color.

64:6.31. The red man. These peo­ples were re­mark­able spec­i­mens of the hu­man race, in many ways su­pe­rior to An­don and Fonta. They were a most in­tel­li­gent group and were the first of the San­gik chil­dren to de­velop a tribal civ­i­liza­tion and gov­ern­ment. They were al­ways monog­a­mous; even their mixed de­scen­dants sel­dom prac­ticed plu­ral mat­ing.

64:6.4In later times they had se­ri­ous and pro­longed trou­ble with their yel­low breth­ren in Asia. They were aided by their early in­ven­tion of the bow and ar­row, but they had un­for­tu­nately in­her­ited much of the ten­dency of their an­ces­tors to fight among them­selves, and this so weak­ened them that the yel­low tribes were able to drive them off the Asi­atic con­ti­nent.

64:6.5About eighty-five thou­sand years ago the com­par­a­tively pure rem­nants of the red race went en masse across to North Amer­ica, and shortly there­after the Bering land isth­mus sank, thus iso­lat­ing them. No red man ever re­turned to Asia. But through­out Siberia, China, cen­tral Asia, In­dia, and Eu­rope they left be­hind much of their stock blended with the other col­ored races.

64:6.6When the red man crossed over into Amer­ica, he brought along much of the teach­ings and tra­di­tions of his early ori­gin. His im­me­di­ate an­ces­tors had been in touch with the later ac­tiv­i­ties of the world head­quar­ters of the Plan­e­tary Prince. But in a short time af­ter reach­ing the Amer­i­cas, the red men be­gan to lose sight of these teach­ings, and there oc­curred a great de­cline in in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual cul­ture. Very soon these peo­ple again fell to fight­ing so fiercely among them­selves that it ap­peared that these tribal wars would re­sult in the speedy ex­tinc­tion of this rem­nant of the com­par­a­tively pure red race.

64:6.7Be­cause of this great ret­ro­gres­sion the red men seemed doomed when, about sixty-five thou­sand years ago, Ona­mo­na­lon­ton ap­peared as their leader and spir­i­tual de­liv­erer. He brought tem­po­rary peace among the Amer­i­can red men and re­vived their wor­ship of the “Great Spirit.” Ona­mo­na­lon­ton lived to be ninety-six years of age and main­tained his head­quar­ters among the great red­wood trees of Cal­i­for­nia. Many of his later de­scen­dants have come down to mod­ern times among the Black­foot In­di­ans.

64:6.8As time passed, the teach­ings of Ona­mo­na­lon­ton be­came hazy tra­di­tions. In­ternecine wars were re­sumed, and never af­ter the days of this great teacher did an­other leader suc­ceed in bring­ing uni­ver­sal peace among them. In­creas­ingly the more in­tel­li­gent strains per­ished in these tribal strug­gles; oth­er­wise a great civ­i­liza­tion would have been built upon the North Amer­i­can con­ti­nent by these able and in­tel­li­gent red men.

64:6.9Af­ter cross­ing over to Amer­ica from China, the north­ern red man never again came in con­tact with other world in­flu­ences (ex­cept the Es­kimo) un­til he was later dis­cov­ered by the white man. It was most un­for­tu­nate that the red man al­most com­pletely missed his op­por­tu­nity of be­ing up­stepped by the ad­mix­ture of the later Adamic stock. As it was, the red man could not rule the white man, and he would not will­ingly serve him. In such a cir­cum­stance, if the two races do not blend, one or the other is doomed.

64:6.102. The or­ange man. The out­stand­ing char­ac­ter­is­tic of this race was their pe­cu­liar urge to build, to build any­thing and ev­ery­thing, even to the pil­ing up of vast mounds of stone just to see which tribe could build the largest mound. Though they were not a pro­gres­sive peo­ple, they prof­ited much from the schools of the Prince and sent del­e­gates there for in­struc­tion.

64:6.11The or­ange race was the first to fol­low the coast line south­ward to­ward Africa as the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea with­drew to the west. But they never se­cured a fa­vor­able foot­ing in Africa and were wiped out of ex­is­tence by the later ar­riv­ing green race.

64:6.12Be­fore the end came, this peo­ple lost much cul­tural and spir­i­tual ground. But there was a great re­vival of higher liv­ing as a re­sult of the wise lead­er­ship of Por­shunta, the mas­ter mind of this un­for­tu­nate race, who min­is­tered to them when their head­quar­ters was at Ar­maged­don some three hun­dred thou­sand years ago.

64:6.13The last great strug­gle be­tween the or­ange and the green men oc­curred in the re­gion of the lower Nile val­ley in Egypt. This long-drawn-out bat­tle was waged for al­most one hun­dred years, and at its close very few of the or­ange race were left alive. The shat­tered rem­nants of these peo­ple were ab­sorbed by the green and by the later ar­riv­ing in­digo men. But as a race the or­ange man ceased to ex­ist about one hun­dred thou­sand years ago.

64:6.143. The yel­low man. The prim­i­tive yel­low tribes were the first to aban­don the chase, es­tab­lish set­tled com­mu­ni­ties, and de­velop a home life based on agri­cul­ture. In­tel­lec­tu­ally they were some­what in­fe­rior to the red man, but so­cially and col­lec­tively they proved them­selves su­pe­rior to all of the San­gik peo­ples in the mat­ter of fos­ter­ing racial civ­i­liza­tion. Be­cause they de­vel­oped a fra­ter­nal spirit, the var­i­ous tribes learn­ing to live to­gether in rel­a­tive peace, they were able to drive the red race be­fore them as they grad­u­ally ex­panded into Asia.

64:6.15They trav­eled far from the in­flu­ences of the spir­i­tual head­quar­ters of the world and drifted into great dark­ness fol­low­ing the Cali­gas­tia apos­tasy; but there oc­curred one bril­liant age among this peo­ple when Singlang­ton, about one hun­dred thou­sand years ago, as­sumed the lead­er­ship of these tribes and pro­claimed the wor­ship of the “One Truth.”

64:6.16The sur­vival of com­par­a­tively large num­bers of the yel­low race is due to their in­ter­tribal peace­ful­ness. From the days of Singlang­ton to the times of mod­ern China, the yel­low race has been num­bered among the more peace­ful of the na­tions of Uran­tia. This race re­ceived a small but po­tent legacy of the later im­ported Adamic stock.

64:6.174. The green man. The green race was one of the less able groups of prim­i­tive men, and they were greatly weak­ened by ex­ten­sive mi­gra­tions in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions. Be­fore their dis­per­sion these tribes ex­pe­ri­enced a great re­vival of cul­ture un­der the lead­er­ship of Fan­tad, some three hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years ago.

64:6.18The green race split into three ma­jor di­vi­sions: The north­ern tribes were sub­dued, en­slaved, and ab­sorbed by the yel­low and blue races. The east­ern group were amal­ga­mated with the In­dian peo­ples of those days, and rem­nants still per­sist among them. The south­ern na­tion en­tered Africa, where they de­stroyed their al­most equally in­fe­rior or­ange cousins.

64:6.19In many ways both groups were evenly matched in this strug­gle since each car­ried strains of the gi­ant or­der, many of their lead­ers be­ing eight and nine feet in height. These gi­ant strains of the green man were mostly con­fined to this south­ern or Egyp­tian na­tion.

64:6.20The rem­nants of the vic­to­ri­ous green men were sub­se­quently ab­sorbed by the in­digo race, the last of the col­ored peo­ples to de­velop and em­i­grate from the orig­i­nal San­gik cen­ter of race dis­per­sion.

64:6.215. The blue man. The blue men were a great peo­ple. They early in­vented the spear and sub­se­quently worked out the rudi­ments of many of the arts of mod­ern civ­i­liza­tion. The blue man had the brain power of the red man as­so­ci­ated with the soul and sen­ti­ment of the yel­low man. The Adamic de­scen­dants pre­ferred them to all of the later per­sist­ing col­ored races.

64:6.22The early blue men were re­spon­sive to the per­sua­sions of the teach­ers of Prince Cali­gas­tia’s staff and were thrown into great con­fu­sion by the sub­se­quent per­verted teach­ings of those traitorous lead­ers. Like other prim­i­tive races they never fully re­cov­ered from the tur­moil pro­duced by the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal, nor did they ever com­pletely over­come their ten­dency to fight among them­selves.

64:6.23About five hun­dred years af­ter Cali­gas­tia’s down­fall a wide­spread re­vival of learn­ing and re­li­gion of a prim­i­tive sort—but none the less real and ben­e­fi­cial—oc­curred. Or­landof be­came a great teacher among the blue race and led many of the tribes back to the wor­ship of the true God un­der the name of the “Su­preme Chief.” This was the great­est ad­vance of the blue man un­til those later times when this race was so greatly up­stepped by the ad­mix­ture of the Adamic stock.

64:6.24The Eu­ro­pean re­searches and ex­plo­rations of the Old Stone Age have largely to do with un­earthing the tools, bones, and artcraft of these an­cient blue men, for they per­sisted in Eu­rope un­til re­cent times. The so-called white races of Uran­tia are the de­scen­dants of these blue men as they were first mod­i­fied by slight mix­ture with yel­low and red, and as they were later greatly up­stepped by as­sim­i­lat­ing the greater por­tion of the vi­o­let race.

64:6.256. The in­digo race. As the red men were the most ad­vanced of all the San­gik peo­ples, so the black men were the least pro­gres­sive. They were the last to mi­grate from their high­land homes. They jour­neyed to Africa, tak­ing pos­ses­sion of the con­ti­nent, and have ever since re­mained there ex­cept when they have been forcibly taken away, from age to age, as slaves.

64:6.26Iso­lated in Africa, the in­digo peo­ples, like the red man, re­ceived lit­tle or none of the race el­e­va­tion which would have been de­rived from the in­fu­sion of the Adamic stock. Alone in Africa, the in­digo race made lit­tle ad­vance­ment un­til the days of Or­vonon, when they ex­pe­ri­enced a great spir­i­tual awak­en­ing. While they later al­most en­tirely for­got the “God of Gods” pro­claimed by Or­vonon, they did not en­tirely lose the de­sire to wor­ship the Un­known; at least they main­tained a form of wor­ship up to a few thou­sand years ago.

64:6.27Not­with­stand­ing their back­ward­ness, these in­digo peo­ples have ex­actly the same stand­ing be­fore the ce­les­tial pow­ers as any other earthly race.

64:6.28These were ages of in­tense strug­gles be­tween the var­i­ous races, but near the head­quar­ters of the Plan­e­tary Prince the more en­light­ened and more re­cently taught groups lived to­gether in com­par­a­tive har­mony, though no great cul­tural con­quest of the world races had been achieved up to the time of the se­ri­ous dis­rup­tion of this regime by the out­break of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion.

64:6.29From time to time all of these dif­fer­ent peo­ples ex­pe­ri­enced cul­tural and spir­i­tual re­vivals. Mansant was a great teacher of the post-Plan­e­tary Prince days. But men­tion is made only of those out­stand­ing lead­ers and teach­ers who markedly in­flu­enced and in­spired a whole race. With the pass­ing of time, many lesser teach­ers arose in dif­fer­ent re­gions; and in the ag­gre­gate they con­tributed much to the sum to­tal of those sav­ing in­flu­ences which pre­vented the to­tal col­lapse of cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion, es­pe­cially dur­ing the long and dark ages be­tween the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion and the ar­rival of Adam.

64:6.30There are many good and suf­fi­cient rea­sons for the plan of evolv­ing ei­ther three or six col­ored races on the worlds of space. Though Uran­tia mor­tals may not be in a po­si­tion fully to ap­pre­ci­ate all of these rea­sons, we would call at­ten­tion to the fol­low­ing:

64:6.311. Va­ri­ety is in­dis­pens­able to op­por­tu­nity for the wide func­tion­ing of nat­u­ral se­lec­tion, dif­fer­en­tial sur­vival of su­pe­rior strains.

64:6.322. Stronger and bet­ter races are to be had from the in­ter­breed­ing of di­verse peo­ples when these dif­fer­ent races are car­ri­ers of su­pe­rior in­her­i­tance fac­tors. And the Uran­tia races would have ben­e­fited by such an early amal­ga­ma­tion pro­vided such a con­joint peo­ple could have been sub­se­quently ef­fec­tively up­stepped by a thor­ough­go­ing ad­mix­ture with the su­pe­rior Adamic stock. The at­tempt to ex­e­cute such an ex­per­i­ment on Uran­tia un­der pres­ent racial con­di­tions would be highly dis­as­trous.

64:6.333. Com­pe­ti­tion is health­fully stim­u­lated by di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of races.

64:6.344. Dif­fer­ences in sta­tus of the races and of groups within each race are es­sen­tial to the de­vel­op­ment of hu­man tol­er­ance and al­tru­ism.

64:6.355. Ho­mo­gene­ity of the hu­man race is not de­sir­able un­til the peo­ples of an evolv­ing world at­tain com­par­a­tively high lev­els of spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment.