The Violet Race After the Days of Adam

78:1.1Al­though the minds and morals of the races were at a low level at the time of Adam’s ar­rival, phys­i­cal evo­lu­tion had gone on quite un­af­fected by the ex­i­gen­cies of the Cali­gas­tia re­bel­lion. Adam’s con­tri­bu­tion to the bi­o­logic sta­tus of the races, not­with­stand­ing the par­tial fail­ure of the un­der­tak­ing, enor­mously up­stepped the peo­ple of Uran­tia.

78:1.2Adam and Eve also con­tributed much that was of value to the so­cial, moral, and in­tel­lec­tual prog­ress of man­kind; civ­i­liza­tion was im­mensely quick­ened by the pres­ence of their off­spring. But thirty-five thou­sand years ago the world at large pos­sessed lit­tle cul­ture. Cer­tain cen­ters of civ­i­liza­tion ex­isted here and there, but most of Uran­tia lan­guished in sav­agery. Racial and cul­tural dis­tri­bu­tion was as fol­lows:

78:1.31. The vi­o­let race—Adamites and Ad­am­son­ites. The chief cen­ter of Adamite cul­ture was in the sec­ond gar­den, lo­cated in the tri­an­gle of the Tigris and Eu­phrates rivers; this was in­deed the cra­dle of Oc­ci­den­tal and In­dian civ­i­liza­tions. The sec­ondary or north­ern cen­ter of the vi­o­let race was the Ad­am­son­ite head­quar­ters, sit­u­ated east of the south­ern shore of the Caspian Sea near the Kopet moun­tains. From these two cen­ters there went forth to the sur­round­ing lands the cul­ture and life plasm which so im­me­di­ately quick­ened all the races.

78:1.42. Pre-Sume­ri­ans and other Nod­ites. There were also pres­ent in Mes­o­po­ta­mia, near the mouth of the rivers, rem­nants of the an­cient cul­ture of the days of Dala­ma­tia. With the pass­ing mil­len­ni­ums, this group be­came thor­oughly ad­mixed with the Adamites to the north, but they never en­tirely lost their Nod­ite tra­di­tions. Var­i­ous other Nod­ite groups that had set­tled in the Lev­ant were, in gen­eral, ab­sorbed by the later ex­pand­ing vi­o­let race.

78:1.53. The An­don­ites main­tained five or six fairly rep­re­sen­ta­tive set­tle­ments to the north and east of the Adam­son head­quar­ters. They were also scat­tered through­out Tur­kes­tan, while iso­lated is­lands of them per­sisted through­out Eura­sia, es­pe­cially in moun­tain­ous re­gions. These abo­rig­ines still held the north­lands of the Eurasian con­ti­nent, to­gether with Ice­land and Green­land, but they had long since been driven from the plains of Eu­rope by the blue man and from the river val­leys of far­ther Asia by the ex­pand­ing yel­low race.

78:1.64. The red man oc­cu­pied the Amer­i­cas, hav­ing been driven out of Asia over fifty thou­sand years be­fore the ar­rival of Adam.

78:1.75. The yel­low race. The Chi­nese peo­ples were well es­tab­lished in con­trol of east­ern Asia. Their most ad­vanced set­tle­ments were sit­u­ated to the north­west of mod­ern China in re­gions bor­der­ing on Ti­bet.

78:1.86. The blue race. The blue men were scat­tered all over Eu­rope, but their bet­ter cen­ters of cul­ture were sit­u­ated in the then fer­tile val­leys of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin and in north­west­ern Eu­rope. Ne­an­derthal ab­sorp­tion had greatly re­tarded the cul­ture of the blue man, but he was oth­er­wise the most ag­gres­sive, ad­ven­tur­ous, and ex­ploratory of all the evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples of Eura­sia.

78:1.97. Pre-Dra­vid­ian In­dia. The com­plex mix­ture of races in In­dia—em­brac­ing ev­ery race on earth, but es­pe­cially the green, or­ange, and black—main­tained a cul­ture slightly above that of the out­ly­ing re­gions.

78:1.108. The Sa­hara civ­i­liza­tion. The su­pe­rior el­e­ments of the in­digo race had their most pro­gres­sive set­tle­ments in what is now the great Sa­hara desert. This in­digo-black group car­ried ex­ten­sive strains of the sub­merged or­ange and green races.

78:1.119. The Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin. The most highly blended race out­side of In­dia oc­cu­pied what is now the Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin. Here blue men from the north and Sa­ha­rans from the south met and min­gled with Nod­ites and Adamites from the east.

78:1.12This was the pic­ture of the world prior to the be­gin­nings of the great ex­pan­sions of the vi­o­let race, about twenty-five thou­sand years ago. The hope of fu­ture civ­i­liza­tion lay in the sec­ond gar­den be­tween the rivers of Mes­o­po­ta­mia. Here in south­west­ern Asia there ex­isted the po­ten­tial of a great civ­i­liza­tion, the pos­si­bil­ity of the spread to the world of the ideas and ide­als which had been sal­vaged from the days of Dala­ma­tia and the times of Eden.

78:1.13Adam and Eve had left be­hind a lim­ited but po­tent progeny, and the ce­les­tial ob­servers on Uran­tia waited anx­iously to find out how these de­scen­dants of the erring Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter would ac­quit them­selves.