The Violet Race After the Days of Adam

78:2.1For thou­sands of years the sons of Adam la­bored along the rivers of Mes­o­po­ta­mia, work­ing out their ir­ri­ga­tion and flood-con­trol prob­lems to the south, per­fect­ing their de­fenses to the north, and at­tempt­ing to pre­serve their tra­di­tions of the glory of the first Eden.

78:2.2The hero­ism dis­played in the lead­er­ship of the sec­ond gar­den con­sti­tutes one of the amaz­ing and in­spir­ing epics of Uran­tia’s his­tory. These splen­did souls never wholly lost sight of the pur­pose of the Adamic mis­sion, and there­fore did they valiantly fight off the in­flu­ences of the sur­round­ing and in­fe­rior tribes while they will­ingly sent forth their choic­est sons and daugh­ters in a steady stream as emis­saries to the races of earth. Some­times this ex­pan­sion was de­plet­ing to the home cul­ture, but al­ways these su­pe­rior peo­ples would re­ha­bil­i­tate them­selves.

78:2.3The civ­i­liza­tion, so­ci­ety, and cul­tural sta­tus of the Adamites were far above the gen­eral level of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of Uran­tia. Only among the old set­tle­ments of Van and Amadon and the Ad­am­son­ites was there a civ­i­liza­tion in any way com­pa­ra­ble. But the civ­i­liza­tion of the sec­ond Eden was an ar­ti­fi­cial struc­ture—it had not been evolved—and was there­fore doomed to de­te­ri­o­rate un­til it reached a nat­u­ral evo­lu­tion­ary level.

78:2.4Adam left a great in­tel­lec­tual and spir­i­tual cul­ture be­hind him, but it was not ad­vanced in me­chan­i­cal ap­pli­ances since ev­ery civ­i­liza­tion is lim­ited by avail­able nat­u­ral re­sources, in­her­ent ge­nius, and suf­fi­cient leisure to in­sure in­ven­tive fruition. The civ­i­liza­tion of the vi­o­let race was pred­i­cated on the pres­ence of Adam and on the tra­di­tions of the first Eden. Af­ter Adam’s death and as these tra­di­tions grew dim through the pass­ing mil­len­ni­ums, the cul­tural level of the Adamites steadily de­te­ri­o­rated un­til it reached a state of re­cip­ro­cal bal­ance with the sta­tus of the sur­round­ing peo­ples and the nat­u­rally evolv­ing cul­tural ca­pac­i­ties of the vi­o­let race.

78:2.5But the Adamites were a real na­tion around 19,000 B.C., num­ber­ing four and a half mil­lion, and al­ready they had poured forth mil­lions of their progeny into the sur­round­ing peo­ples.