The Evolutionary Races of Color

64:7.1When the col­ored de­scen­dants of the San­gik fam­ily be­gan to mul­ti­ply, and as they sought op­por­tu­nity for ex­pan­sion into ad­ja­cent ter­ri­tory, the fifth glacier, the third of ge­o­logic count, was well ad­vanced on its south­ern drift over Eu­rope and Asia. These early col­ored races were ex­traor­di­nar­ily tested by the rig­ors and hard­ships of the glacial age of their ori­gin. This glacier was so ex­ten­sive in Asia that for thou­sands of years mi­gra­tion to east­ern Asia was cut off. And not un­til the later re­treat of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean Sea, con­se­quent upon the el­e­va­tion of Ara­bia, was it pos­si­ble for them to reach Africa.

64:7.2Thus it was that for al­most one hun­dred thou­sand years these San­gik peo­ples spread out around the foothills and min­gled to­gether more or less, not­with­stand­ing the pe­cu­liar but nat­u­ral an­tipa­thy which early man­i­fested it­self be­tween the dif­fer­ent races.

64:7.3Be­tween the times of the Plan­e­tary Prince and Adam, In­dia be­came the home of the most cos­mopoli­tan pop­u­la­tion ever to be found on the face of the earth. But it was un­for­tu­nate that this mix­ture came to con­tain so much of the green, or­ange, and in­digo races. These sec­ondary San­gik peo­ples found ex­is­tence more easy and agree­able in the south­lands, and many of them sub­se­quently mi­grated to Africa. The pri­mary San­gik peo­ples, the su­pe­rior races, avoided the trop­ics, the red man go­ing north­east to Asia, closely fol­lowed by the yel­low man, while the blue race moved north­west into Eu­rope.

64:7.4The red men early be­gan to mi­grate to the north­east, on the heels of the re­treat­ing ice, pass­ing around the high­lands of In­dia and oc­cu­py­ing all of north­east­ern Asia. They were closely fol­lowed by the yel­low tribes, who sub­se­quently drove them out of Asia into North Amer­ica.

64:7.5When the rel­a­tively pure-line rem­nants of the red race for­sook Asia, there were eleven tribes, and they num­bered a lit­tle over seven thou­sand men, women, and chil­dren. These tribes were ac­com­pa­nied by three small groups of mixed an­ces­try, the largest of these be­ing a com­bi­na­tion of the or­ange and blue races. These three groups never fully frat­er­nized with the red man and early jour­neyed south­ward to Mex­ico and Cen­tral Amer­ica, where they were later joined by a small group of mixed yel­lows and reds. These peo­ples all in­ter­mar­ried and founded a new and amal­ga­mated race, one which was much less war­like than the pure-line red men. Within five thou­sand years this amal­ga­mated race broke up into three groups, es­tab­lish­ing the civ­i­liza­tions re­spec­tively of Mex­ico, Cen­tral Amer­ica, and South Amer­ica. The South Amer­i­can off­shoot did re­ceive a faint touch of the blood of Adam.

64:7.6To a cer­tain ex­tent the early red and yel­low men min­gled in Asia, and the off­spring of this union jour­neyed on to the east and along the south­ern sea­coast and, even­tu­ally, were driven by the rapidly in­creas­ing yel­low race onto the penin­su­las and near-by is­lands of the sea. They are the pres­ent-day brown men.

64:7.7The yel­low race has con­tin­ued to oc­cupy the cen­tral re­gions of east­ern Asia. Of all the six col­ored races they have sur­vived in great­est num­bers. While the yel­low men now and then en­gaged in racial war, they did not carry on such in­ces­sant and re­lent­less wars of ex­ter­mi­na­tion as were waged by the red, green, and or­ange men. These three races vir­tu­ally de­stroyed them­selves be­fore they were fi­nally all but an­ni­hi­lated by their en­e­mies of other races.

64:7.8Since the fifth glacier did not ex­tend so far south in Eu­rope, the way was par­tially open for these San­gik peo­ples to mi­grate to the north­west; and upon the re­treat of the ice the blue men, to­gether with a few other small racial groups, mi­grated west­ward along the old trails of the An­don tribes. They in­vaded Eu­rope in suc­ces­sive waves, oc­cu­py­ing most of the con­ti­nent.

64:7.9In Eu­rope they soon en­coun­tered the Ne­an­derthal de­scen­dants of their early and com­mon an­ces­tor, An­don. These older Eu­ro­pean Ne­an­derthalers had been driven south and east by the glacier and thus were in po­si­tion quickly to en­counter and ab­sorb their in­vad­ing cousins of the San­gik tribes.

64:7.10In gen­eral and to start with, the San­gik tribes were more in­tel­li­gent than, and in most ways far su­pe­rior to, the de­te­ri­o­rated de­scen­dants of the early An­donic plains­men; and the min­gling of these San­gik tribes with the Ne­an­derthal peo­ples led to the im­me­di­ate im­prove­ment of the older race. It was this in­fu­sion of San­gik blood, more es­pe­cially that of the blue man, which pro­duced that marked im­prove­ment in the Ne­an­derthal peo­ples ex­hib­ited by the suc­ces­sive waves of in­creas­ingly in­tel­li­gent tribes that swept over Eu­rope from the east.

64:7.11Dur­ing the fol­low­ing in­ter­glacial pe­riod this new Ne­an­derthal race ex­tended from Eng­land to In­dia. The rem­nant of the blue race left in the old Per­sian penin­sula later amal­ga­mated with cer­tain oth­ers, pri­mar­ily the yel­low; and the re­sul­tant blend, sub­se­quently some­what up­stepped by the vi­o­let race of Adam, has per­sisted as the swarthy no­madic tribes of mod­ern Arabs.

64:7.12All ef­forts to iden­tify the San­gik an­ces­try of mod­ern peo­ples must take into ac­count the later im­prove­ment of the racial strains by the sub­se­quent ad­mix­ture of Adamic blood.

64:7.13The su­pe­rior races sought the north­ern or tem­per­ate climes, while the or­ange, green, and in­digo races suc­ces­sively grav­i­tated to Africa over the newly el­e­vated land bridge which sep­a­rated the west­ward re­treat­ing Med­i­ter­ra­nean from the In­dian Ocean.

64:7.14The last of the San­gik peo­ples to mi­grate from their cen­ter of race ori­gin was the in­digo man. About the time the green man was killing off the or­ange race in Egypt and greatly weak­en­ing him­self in so do­ing, the great black ex­o­dus started south through Pales­tine along the coast; and later, when these phys­i­cally strong in­digo peo­ples over­ran Egypt, they wiped the green man out of ex­is­tence by sheer force of num­bers. These in­digo races ab­sorbed the rem­nants of the or­ange man and much of the stock of the green man, and cer­tain of the in­digo tribes were con­sid­er­ably im­proved by this racial amal­ga­ma­tion.

64:7.15And so it ap­pears that Egypt was first dom­i­nated by the or­ange man, then by the green, fol­lowed by the in­digo (black) man, and still later by a mon­grel race of in­digo, blue, and mod­i­fied green men. But long be­fore Adam ar­rived, the blue men of Eu­rope and the mixed races of Ara­bia had driven the in­digo race out of Egypt and far south on the African con­ti­nent.

64:7.16As the San­gik mi­gra­tions draw to a close, the green and or­ange races are gone, the red man holds North Amer­ica, the yel­low man east­ern Asia, the blue man Eu­rope, and the in­digo race has grav­i­tated to Africa. In­dia har­bors a blend of the sec­ondary San­gik races, and the brown man, a blend of the red and yel­low, holds the is­lands off the Asi­atic coast. An amal­ga­mated race of rather su­pe­rior po­ten­tial oc­cu­pies the high­lands of South Amer­ica. The purer An­don­ites live in the ex­treme north­ern re­gions of Eu­rope and in Ice­land, Green­land, and north­east­ern North Amer­ica.

64:7.17Dur­ing the pe­ri­ods of far­thest glacial ad­vance the west­ern­most of the An­don tribes came very near be­ing driven into the sea. They lived for years on a nar­row south­ern strip of the pres­ent is­land of Eng­land. And it was the tra­di­tion of these re­peated glacial ad­vances that drove them to take to the sea when the sixth and last glacier fi­nally ap­peared. They were the first ma­rine ad­ven­tur­ers. They built boats and started in search of new lands which they hoped might be free from the ter­ri­fy­ing ice in­va­sions. And some of them reached Ice­land, oth­ers Green­land, but the vast ma­jor­ity per­ished from hunger and thirst on the open sea.

64:7.18A lit­tle more than eighty thou­sand years ago, shortly af­ter the red man en­tered north­west­ern North Amer­ica, the freez­ing over of the north seas and the ad­vance of lo­cal ice fields on Green­land drove these Es­kimo de­scen­dants of the Uran­tia abo­rig­ines to seek a bet­ter land, a new home; and they were suc­cess­ful, safely cross­ing the nar­row straits which then sep­a­rated Green­land from the north­east­ern land masses of North Amer­ica. They reached the con­ti­nent about twenty-one hun­dred years af­ter the red man ar­rived in Alaska. Sub­se­quently some of the mixed stock of the blue man jour­neyed west­ward and amal­ga­mated with the later-day Es­ki­mos, and this union was slightly ben­e­fi­cial to the Es­kimo tribes.

64:7.19About five thou­sand years ago a chance meet­ing oc­curred be­tween an In­dian tribe and a lone Es­kimo group on the south­east­ern shores of Hud­son Bay. These two tribes found it dif­fi­cult to com­mu­ni­cate with each other, but very soon they in­ter­mar­ried with the re­sult that these Es­ki­mos were even­tu­ally ab­sorbed by the more nu­mer­ous red men. And this rep­re­sents the only con­tact of the North Amer­i­can red man with any other hu­man stock down to about one thou­sand years ago, when the white man first chanced to land on the At­lantic coast.

64:7.20The strug­gles of these early ages were char­ac­ter­ized by cour­age, brav­ery, and even hero­ism. And we all re­gret that so many of those ster­ling and rugged traits of your early an­ces­tors have been lost to the later-day races. While we ap­pre­ci­ate the value of many of the re­fine­ments of ad­vanc­ing civ­i­liza­tion, we miss the mag­nif­i­cent per­sis­tency and su­perb de­vo­tion of your early an­ces­tors, which of­ten­times bor­dered on grandeur and sub­lim­ity.

64:7.21[Pre­sented by a Life Car­rier res­i­dent on Uran­tia.]