races

51:4.1The race of dom­i­nance dur­ing the early ages of the in­hab­ited worlds is the red man, who or­di­nar­ily is the first to at­tain hu­man lev­els of de­vel­op­ment. But while the red man is the se­nior race of the plan­ets, the suc­ceed­ing col­ored peo­ples be­gin to make their ap­pear­ances very early in the age of mor­tal emer­gence.

51:4.2The ear­lier races are some­what su­pe­rior to the later; the red man stands far above the in­digo—black—race. The Life Car­ri­ers im­part the full be­stowal of the liv­ing en­er­gies to the ini­tial or red race, and each suc­ceed­ing evo­lu­tion­ary man­i­fes­ta­tion of a dis­tinct group of mor­tals rep­re­sents vari­a­tion at the ex­pense of the orig­i­nal en­dow­ment. Even mor­tal stature tends to de­crease from the red man down to the in­digo race, al­though on Uran­tia un­ex­pected strains of gi­antism ap­peared among the green and or­ange peo­ples.

51:4.3On those worlds hav­ing all six evo­lu­tion­ary races the su­pe­rior peo­ples are the first, third, and fifth races—the red, the yel­low, and the blue. The evo­lu­tion­ary races thus al­ter­nate in ca­pac­ity for in­tel­lec­tual growth and spir­i­tual de­vel­op­ment, the sec­ond, fourth, and sixth be­ing some­what less en­dowed. These sec­ondary races are the peo­ples that are miss­ing on cer­tain worlds; they are the ones that have been ex­ter­mi­nated on many oth­ers. It is a mis­for­tune on Uran­tia that you so largely lost your su­pe­rior blue men, ex­cept as they per­sist in your amal­ga­mated “white race.” The loss of your or­ange and green stocks is not of such se­ri­ous con­cern.

51:4.4The evo­lu­tion of six—or of three—col­ored races, while seem­ing to de­te­ri­o­rate the orig­i­nal en­dow­ment of the red man, pro­vides cer­tain very de­sir­able vari­a­tions in mor­tal types and af­fords an oth­er­wise unattain­able ex­pres­sion of di­verse hu­man po­ten­tials. These mod­i­fi­ca­tions are ben­e­fi­cial to the prog­ress of man­kind as a whole pro­vided they are sub­se­quently up­stepped by the im­ported Adamic or vi­o­let race. On Uran­tia this usual plan of amal­ga­ma­tion was not ex­ten­sively car­ried out, and this fail­ure to ex­e­cute the plan of race evo­lu­tion makes it im­pos­si­ble for you to un­der­stand very much about the sta­tus of these peo­ples on an av­er­age in­hab­ited planet by ob­serv­ing the rem­nants of these early races on your world.

51:4.5In the early days of racial de­vel­op­ment there is a slight ten­dency for the red, the yel­low, and the blue men to in­ter­breed; there is a sim­i­lar ten­dency for the or­ange, green, and in­digo races to in­ter­min­gle.

51:4.6The more back­ward hu­mans are usu­ally em­ployed as la­bor­ers by the more pro­gres­sive races. This ac­counts for the ori­gin of slav­ery on the plan­ets dur­ing the early ages. The or­ange men are usu­ally sub­dued by the red and re­duced to the sta­tus of ser­vants—some­times ex­ter­mi­nated. The yel­low and red men of­ten frat­er­nize, but not al­ways. The yel­low race usu­ally en­slaves the green, while the blue man sub­dues the in­digo. These races of prim­i­tive men think no more of uti­liz­ing the ser­vices of their back­ward fel­lows in com­pul­sory la­bor than Uran­tians would of buy­ing and sell­ing horses and cat­tle.

51:4.7On most nor­mal worlds in­vol­un­tary servi­tude does not sur­vive the dis­pen­sa­tion of the Plan­e­tary Prince, al­though men­tal de­fec­tives and so­cial delin­quents are of­ten still com­pelled to per­form in­vol­un­tary la­bor. But on all nor­mal spheres this sort of prim­i­tive slav­ery is abol­ished soon af­ter the ar­rival of the im­ported vi­o­let or Adamic race.

51:4.8These six evo­lu­tion­ary races are des­tined to be blended and ex­alted by amal­ga­ma­tion with the progeny of the Adamic up­lifters. But be­fore these peo­ples are blended, the in­fe­rior and un­fit are largely elim­i­nated. The Plan­e­tary Prince and the Ma­te­rial Son, with other suit­able plan­e­tary au­thor­i­ties, pass upon the fit­ness of the re­pro­duc­ing strains. The dif­fi­culty of ex­e­cut­ing such a rad­i­cal pro­gram on Uran­tia con­sists in the ab­sence of com­pe­tent judges to pass upon the bi­o­logic fit­ness or un­fit­ness of the in­di­vid­u­als of your world races. Not­with­stand­ing this ob­sta­cle, it seems that you ought to be able to agree upon the bi­o­logic dis­fel­low­ship­ing of your more markedly un­fit, de­fec­tive, de­gen­er­ate, and an­ti­so­cial stocks.

45:4.2These twenty-four coun­selors have been re­cruited from the eight Uran­tia races, and the last of this group were as­sem­bled at the time of the res­ur­rec­tion roll call of Mi­chael, nine­teen hun­dred years ago. This Uran­tia ad­vi­sory coun­cil is made up of the fol­low­ing mem­bers:

34:7.1The flesh, the in­her­ent na­ture de­rived from the an­i­mal-ori­gin races, does not nat­u­rally bear the fruits of the di­vine Spirit. When the mor­tal na­ture has been up­stepped by the ad­di­tion of the na­ture of the Ma­te­rial Sons of God, as the Uran­tia races were in a mea­sure ad­vanced by the be­stowal of Adam, then is the way bet­ter pre­pared for the Spirit of Truth to co-op­er­ate with the in­dwelling Ad­juster to bring forth the beau­ti­ful har­vest of the char­ac­ter fruits of the spirit. If you do not re­ject this spirit, even though eter­nity may be re­quired to ful­fill the com­mis­sion, “he will guide you into all truth.”

70:1.2War is an an­i­mal­is­tic re­ac­tion to mis­un­der­stand­ings and ir­ri­ta­tions; peace at­tends upon the civ­i­lized so­lu­tion of all such prob­lems and dif­fi­cul­ties. The San­gik races, to­gether with the later de­te­ri­o­rated Adamites and Nod­ites, were all bel­liger­ent. The An­don­ites were early taught the golden rule, and, even to­day, their Es­kimo de­scen­dants live very much by that code; cus­tom is strong among them, and they are fairly free from vi­o­lent an­tag­o­nisms.

66:3.7Near the Prince’s head­quar­ters there dwelt all col­ors and strata of hu­man be­ings. And it was from these near-by tribes that the first stu­dents of the Prince’s schools were re­cruited. Al­though these early schools of Dala­ma­tia were crude, they pro­vided all that could be done for the men and women of that prim­i­tive age.

148:1.1Pe­ter, James, and An­drew were the com­mit­tee des­ig­nated by Je­sus to pass upon ap­pli­cants for ad­mis­sion to the school of evan­ge­lists. All the races and na­tion­al­i­ties of the Ro­man world and the East, as far as In­dia, were rep­re­sented among the stu­dents in this new school of the proph­ets. This school was con­ducted on the plan of learn­ing and do­ing. What the stu­dents learned dur­ing the forenoon they taught to the as­sem­bly by the sea­side dur­ing the af­ter­noon. Af­ter sup­per they in­for­mally dis­cussed both the learn­ing of the forenoon and the teach­ing of the af­ter­noon.

114:6.95. The an­gels of the races. Those who work for the con­ser­va­tion of the evo­lu­tion­ary races of time, re­gard­less of their po­lit­i­cal en­tan­gle­ments and re­li­gious group­ings. On Uran­tia there are rem­nants of nine hu­man races which have com­min­gled and com­bined into the peo­ple of mod­ern times. These ser­a­phim are closely as­so­ci­ated with the min­istry of the race com­mis­sion­ers, and the group now on Uran­tia is the orig­i­nal corps as­signed to the planet soon af­ter the day of Pen­te­cost.

• successively in order of spectrum colors

52:1.1From the time of man’s emer­gence from the an­i­mal level—when he can choose to wor­ship the Cre­ator—to the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince, mor­tal will crea­tures are called prim­i­tive men. There are six ba­sic types or races of prim­i­tive men, and these early peo­ples suc­ces­sively ap­pear in the or­der of the spec­trum col­ors, be­gin­ning with the red. The length of time con­sumed in this early life evo­lu­tion varies greatly on the dif­fer­ent worlds, rang­ing from one hun­dred and fifty thou­sand years to over one mil­lion years of Uran­tia time.

• about time man develops language

52:1.2The evo­lu­tion­ary races of color—red, or­ange, yel­low, green, blue, and in­digo—be­gin to ap­pear about the time that prim­i­tive man is de­vel­op­ing a sim­ple lan­guage and is be­gin­ning to ex­er­cise the cre­ative imag­i­na­tion. By this time man is well ac­cus­tomed to stand­ing erect.

• suddenly mutated 500,000 years ago

61:7.4500,000 years ago, dur­ing the fifth ad­vance of the ice, a new de­vel­op­ment ac­cel­er­ated the course of hu­man evo­lu­tion. Sud­denly and in one gen­er­a­tion the six col­ored races mu­tated from the abo­rig­i­nal hu­man stock. This is a dou­bly im­por­tant date since it also marks the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince.

• in Old Stone Age

64:0.2The hu­man race is al­most one mil­lion years old, and the first half of its story roughly cor­re­sponds to the pre-Plan­e­tary Prince days of Uran­tia. The lat­ter half of the his­tory of man­kind be­gins at the time of the ar­rival of the Plan­e­tary Prince and the ap­pear­ance of the six col­ored races and roughly cor­re­sponds to the pe­riod com­monly re­garded as the Old Stone Age.

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.

• usually appear sequentially, not in one family

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.

• human will preceded

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.

• usually appear sequentially, not in one family

65:4.7There were many unique fea­tures of the Uran­tia life ex­per­i­ment, but the two out­stand­ing episodes were the ap­pear­ance of the An­donic race prior to the evo­lu­tion of the six col­ored peo­ples and the later si­mul­ta­ne­ous ap­pear­ance of the San­gik mu­tants in a sin­gle fam­ily. Uran­tia is the first world in Sa­ta­nia where the six col­ored races sprang from the same hu­man fam­ily. They or­di­nar­ily arise in di­ver­si­fied strains from in­de­pen­dent mu­ta­tions within the pre­hu­man an­i­mal stock and usu­ally ap­pear on earth one at a time and suc­ces­sively over long pe­ri­ods of time, be­gin­ning with the red man and pass­ing on down through the col­ors to in­digo.

52:2.5But the Plan­e­tary Prince is not “the Prince of Peace.” Racial strug­gles and tribal wars con­tinue over into this dis­pen­sa­tion but with di­min­ish­ing fre­quency and sever­ity. This is the great age of racial dis­per­sion, and it cul­mi­nates in a pe­riod of in­tense na­tion­al­ism. Color is the ba­sis of tribal and na­tional group­ings, and the dif­fer­ent races of­ten de­velop sep­a­rate lan­guages. Each ex­pand­ing group of mor­tals tends to seek iso­la­tion. This seg­re­ga­tion is fa­vored by the ex­is­tence of many lan­guages. Be­fore the uni­fi­ca­tion of the sev­eral races their re­lent­less war­fare some­times re­sults in the oblit­er­a­tion of whole peo­ples; the or­ange and green men are par­tic­u­larly sub­ject to such ex­tinc­tion.

48:6.222. Racial In­ter­preters. All races of mor­tal be­ings are not alike. True, there is a plan­e­tary pat­tern run­ning through the phys­i­cal, men­tal, and spir­i­tual na­tures and ten­den­cies of the var­i­ous races of a given world; but there are also dis­tinct racial types, and very def­i­nite so­cial ten­den­cies char­ac­ter­ize the off­spring of these dif­fer­ent ba­sic types of hu­man be­ings. On the worlds of time the se­raphic racial in­ter­preters fur­ther the ef­forts of the race com­mis­sion­ers to har­mo­nize the var­ied view­points of the races, and they con­tinue to func­tion on the man­sion worlds, where these same dif­fer­ences tend to per­sist in a mea­sure. On a con­fused planet, such as Uran­tia, these bril­liant be­ings have hardly had a fair op­por­tu­nity to func­tion, but they are the skill­ful so­ci­ol­o­gists and the wise eth­nic ad­vis­ers of the first heaven.

155:6.8Ev­ery race of man­kind has its own men­tal out­look upon hu­man ex­is­tence; there­fore must the re­li­gion of the mind ever run true to these var­i­ous racial view­points. Never can the re­li­gions of au­thor­ity come to uni­fi­ca­tion. Hu­man unity and mor­tal broth­er­hood can be achieved only by and through the super­en­dow­ment of the re­li­gion of the spirit. Racial minds may dif­fer, but all man­kind is in­dwelt by the same di­vine and eter­nal spirit. The hope of hu­man broth­er­hood can only be re­al­ized when, and as, the di­ver­gent mind re­li­gions of au­thor­ity be­come im­preg­nated with, and over­shad­owed by, the uni­fy­ing and en­nobling re­li­gion of the spirit—the re­li­gion of per­sonal spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

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.]

51:5.1When a Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve ar­rive on an in­hab­ited world, they have been fully in­structed by their su­pe­ri­ors as to the best way to ef­fect the im­prove­ment of the ex­ist­ing races of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. The plan of pro­ce­dure is not uni­form; much is left to the judg­ment of the min­is­ter­ing pair, and mis­takes are not in­fre­quent, es­pe­cially on dis­or­dered, in­sur­rec­tionary worlds, such as Uran­tia.

51:5.2Usu­ally the vi­o­let peo­ples do not be­gin to amal­ga­mate with the plan­e­tary na­tives un­til their own group num­bers over one mil­lion. But in the mean­time the staff of the Plan­e­tary Prince pro­claims that the chil­dren of the Gods have come down, as it were, to be one with the races of men; and the peo­ple ea­gerly look for­ward to the day when an­nounce­ment will be made that those who have qual­i­fied as be­long­ing to the su­pe­rior racial strains may pro­ceed to the Gar­den of Eden and be there cho­sen by the sons and daugh­ters of Adam as the evo­lu­tion­ary fa­thers and moth­ers of the new and blended or­der of man­kind.

51:5.3On nor­mal worlds the Plan­e­tary Adam and Eve never mate with the evo­lu­tion­ary races. This work of bi­o­logic bet­ter­ment is a func­tion of the Adamic progeny. But these Adamites do not go out among the races; the prince’s staff bring to the Gar­den of Eden the su­pe­rior men and women for vol­un­tary mat­ing with the Adamic off­spring. And on most worlds it is con­sid­ered the high­est honor to be se­lected as a can­di­date for mat­ing with the sons and daugh­ters of the gar­den.

51:5.4For the first time the racial wars and other tribal strug­gles are di­min­ished, while the world races in­creas­ingly strive to qual­ify for rec­og­ni­tion and ad­mis­sion to the gar­den. You can at best have but a very mea­ger idea of how this com­pet­i­tive strug­gle comes to oc­cupy the cen­ter of all ac­tiv­i­ties on a nor­mal planet. This whole scheme of race im­prove­ment was early wrecked on Uran­tia.

51:5.5The vi­o­let race is a monog­a­mous peo­ple, and ev­ery evo­lu­tion­ary man or woman unit­ing with the Adamic sons and daugh­ters pledges not to take other mates and to in­struct his or her chil­dren in sin­gle-mat­ed­ness. The chil­dren of each of these unions are ed­u­cated and trained in the schools of the Plan­e­tary Prince and then are per­mit­ted to go forth to the race of their evo­lu­tion­ary par­ent, there to marry among the se­lected groups of su­pe­rior mor­tals.

51:5.6When this strain of the Ma­te­rial Sons is added to the evolv­ing races of the worlds, a new and greater era of evo­lu­tion­ary prog­ress is ini­ti­ated. Fol­low­ing this pro­cre­ative out­pour­ing of im­ported abil­ity and super­evo­lu­tion­ary traits there en­sues a suc­ces­sion of rapid strides in civ­i­liza­tion and racial de­vel­op­ment; in one hun­dred thou­sand years more prog­ress is made than in a mil­lion years of for­mer strug­gle. On your world, even in the face of the mis­car­riage of the or­dained plans, great prog­ress has been made since the gift to your peo­ples of Adam’s life plasm.

• on large scale most detrimental under current circumstances

51:5.7But while the pure-line chil­dren of a plan­e­tary Gar­den of Eden can be­stow them­selves upon the su­pe­rior mem­bers of the evo­lu­tion­ary races and thereby up­step the bi­o­logic level of man­kind, it would not prove ben­e­fi­cial for the higher strains of Uran­tia mor­tals to mate with the lower races; such an un­wise pro­ce­dure would jeop­ar­dize all civ­i­liza­tion on your world. Hav­ing failed to achieve race har­mo­niza­tion by the Adamic tech­nique, you must now work out your plan­e­tary prob­lem of race im­prove­ment by other and largely hu­man meth­ods of adap­ta­tion and con­trol.

• r. destined to be blended and exalted by Adamic uplifters after unfit eliminated

52:3.6The re­sult of the gift of the Adamic life plasm to the mor­tal races is an im­me­di­ate up­step­ping of in­tel­lec­tual ca­pac­ity and an ac­cel­er­a­tion of spir­i­tual prog­ress. There is usu­ally some phys­i­cal im­prove­ment also. On an av­er­age world the post-Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion is an age of great in­ven­tion, en­ergy con­trol, and me­chan­i­cal de­vel­op­ment. This is the era of the ap­pear­ance of mul­ti­form man­u­fac­ture and the con­trol of nat­u­ral forces; it is the golden age of ex­plo­ration and the fi­nal sub­du­ing of the planet. Much of the ma­te­rial prog­ress of a world oc­curs dur­ing this time of the in­au­gu­ra­tion of the de­vel­op­ment of the phys­i­cal sci­ences, just such an epoch as Uran­tia is now ex­pe­ri­enc­ing. Your world is a full dis­pen­sa­tion and more be­hind the av­er­age plan­e­tary sched­ule.

• plan was for r. to be blended in Adamic era to olive shade of violet

52:3.7By the end of the Adamic dis­pen­sa­tion on a nor­mal planet the races are prac­ti­cally blended, so that it can be truly pro­claimed that “God has made of one blood all the na­tions,” and that his Son “has made of one color all peo­ples.” The color of such an amal­ga­mated race is some­what of an olive shade of the vi­o­let hue, the racial “white” of the spheres.

• little objection, if between highest types

79:2.7Race mix­ture is al­ways ad­van­ta­geous in that it fa­vors ver­sa­til­ity of cul­ture and makes for a pro­gres­sive civ­i­liza­tion, but if the in­fe­rior el­e­ments of racial stocks pre­dom­i­nate, such achieve­ments will be short-lived. A poly­glot cul­ture can be pre­served only if the su­pe­rior stocks re­pro­duce them­selves in a safe mar­gin over the in­fe­rior. Un­re­strained mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of in­fe­ri­ors, with de­creas­ing re­pro­duc­tion of su­pe­ri­ors, is un­fail­ingly sui­ci­dal of cul­tural civ­i­liza­tion.

81:4.1As con­tact is made with the dawn of his­toric times, all of Eura­sia, north­ern Africa, and the Pa­cific Is­lands is over­spread with the com­pos­ite races of man­kind. And these races of to­day have re­sulted from a blend­ing and re­blend­ing of the five ba­sic hu­man stocks of Uran­tia.

81:4.2Each of the Uran­tia races was iden­ti­fied by cer­tain dis­tin­guish­ing phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics. The Adamites and Nod­ites were long-headed; the An­don­ites were broad-headed. The San­gik races were medium-headed, with the yel­low and blue men tend­ing to broad-head­ed­ness. The blue races, when mixed with the An­don­ite stock, were de­cid­edly broad-headed. The sec­ondary San­giks were medium- to long-headed.

81:4.3Al­though these skull di­men­sions are ser­vice­able in de­ci­pher­ing racial ori­gins, the skele­ton as a whole is far more de­pend­able. In the early de­vel­op­ment of the Uran­tia races there were orig­i­nally five dis­tinct types of skele­tal struc­ture:

81:4.41. An­donic, Uran­tia abo­rig­ines.

81:4.52. Pri­mary San­gik, red, yel­low, and blue.

81:4.63. Sec­ondary San­gik, or­ange, green, and in­digo.

81:4.74. Nod­ites, de­scen­dants of the Dala­ma­tians.

81:4.85. Adamites, the vi­o­let race.

81:4.9As these five great racial groups ex­ten­sively in­ter­min­gled, con­tin­ual mix­ture tended to ob­scure the An­donite type by San­gik hered­i­tary dom­i­nance. The Lapps and the Es­ki­mos are blends of An­donite and San­gik-blue races. Their skele­tal struc­tures come the near­est to pre­serv­ing the abo­rig­i­nal An­donic type. But the Adamites and the Nod­ites have be­come so ad­mixed with the other races that they can be de­tected only as a gen­er­al­ized Cau­ca­soid or­der.

81:4.10In gen­eral, there­fore, as the hu­man re­mains of the last twenty thou­sand years are un­earthed, it will be im­pos­si­ble clearly to dis­tin­guish the five orig­i­nal types. Study of such skele­tal struc­tures will dis­close that man­kind is now di­vided into ap­prox­i­mately three classes:

81:4.111. The Cau­ca­soid—the And­ite blend of the Nod­ite and Adamic stocks, fur­ther mod­i­fied by pri­mary and (some) sec­ondary San­gik ad­mix­ture and by con­sid­er­able An­donic cross­ing. The Oc­ci­den­tal white races, to­gether with some In­dian and Tu­ra­nian peo­ples, are in­cluded in this group. The uni­fy­ing fac­tor in this di­vi­sion is the greater or lesser pro­por­tion of And­ite in­her­i­tance.

81:4.122. The Mon­goloid—the pri­mary San­gik type, in­clud­ing the orig­i­nal red, yel­low, and blue races. The Chi­nese and Amerinds be­long to this group. In Eu­rope the Mon­goloid type has been mod­i­fied by sec­ondary San­gik and An­donic mix­ture; still more by And­ite in­fu­sion. The Malayan and other In­done­sian peo­ples are in­cluded in this clas­si­fi­ca­tion, though they con­tain a high per­cent­age of sec­ondary San­gik blood.

81:4.133. The Ne­groid—the sec­ondary San­gik type, which orig­i­nally in­cluded the or­ange, green, and in­digo races. This is the type best il­lus­trated by the Ne­gro, and it will be found through Africa, In­dia, and In­done­sia wher­ever the sec­ondary San­gik races lo­cated.

81:4.14In North China there is a cer­tain blend­ing of Cau­ca­soid and Mon­goloid types; in the Lev­ant the Cau­ca­soid and Ne­groid have in­ter­min­gled; in In­dia, as in South Amer­ica, all three types are rep­re­sented. And the skele­tal char­ac­ter­is­tics of the three sur­viv­ing types still per­sist and help to iden­tify the later an­ces­try of pres­ent-day hu­man races.

• race mixtures

82:5.1Very early the sav­age ob­served that race mix­ture im­proved the qual­ity of the off­spring. It was not that in­breed­ing was al­ways bad, but that out­breed­ing was al­ways com­par­a­tively bet­ter; there­fore the mores tended to crys­tal­lize in re­stric­tion of sex re­la­tions among near rel­a­tives. It was rec­og­nized that out­breed­ing greatly in­creased the se­lec­tive op­por­tu­nity for evo­lu­tion­ary vari­a­tion and ad­vance­ment. The out­bred in­di­vid­u­als were more ver­sa­tile and had greater abil­ity to sur­vive in a hos­tile world; the in­breed­ers, to­gether with their mores, grad­u­ally dis­ap­peared. This was all a slow de­vel­op­ment; the sav­age did not con­sciously rea­son about such prob­lems. But the later and ad­vanc­ing peo­ples did, and they also made the ob­ser­va­tion that gen­eral weak­ness some­times re­sulted from ex­ces­sive in­breed­ing.

82:6.1There are no pure races in the world to­day. The early and orig­i­nal evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples of color have only two rep­re­sen­ta­tive races per­sist­ing in the world, the yel­low man and the black man; and even these two races are much ad­mixed with the ex­tinct col­ored peo­ples. While the so-called white race is pre­dom­i­nantly de­scended from the an­cient blue man, it is ad­mixed more or less with all other races much as is the red man of the Amer­i­cas.

82:6.2Of the six col­ored San­gik races, three were pri­mary and three were sec­ondary. Though the pri­mary races—blue, red, and yel­low—were in many re­spects su­pe­rior to the three sec­ondary peo­ples, it should be re­mem­bered that these sec­ondary races had many de­sir­able traits which would have con­sid­er­ably en­hanced the pri­mary peo­ples if their bet­ter strains could have been ab­sorbed.

82:6.3Pres­ent-day prej­u­dice against “half-castes,” “hy­brids,” and “mon­grels” arises be­cause mod­ern racial cross­breed­ing is, for the greater part, be­tween the grossly in­fe­rior strains of the races con­cerned. You also get un­sat­is­fac­tory off­spring when the de­gen­er­ate strains of the same race in­ter­marry.

• little objection, if between highest types

82:6.4If the pres­ent-day races of Uran­tia could be freed from the curse of their low­est strata of de­te­ri­o­rated, an­ti­so­cial, fee­ble-minded, and out­cast spec­i­mens, there would be lit­tle ob­jec­tion to a lim­ited race amal­ga­ma­tion. And if such racial mix­tures could take place be­tween the high­est types of the sev­eral races, still less ob­jec­tion could be of­fered.

82:6.5Hy­bridiza­tion of su­pe­rior and dis­sim­i­lar stocks is the se­cret of the cre­ation of new and more vig­or­ous strains. And this is true of plants, an­i­mals, and the hu­man species. Hy­bridiza­tion aug­ments vigor and in­creases fer­til­ity. Race mix­tures of the av­er­age or su­pe­rior strata of var­i­ous peo­ples greatly in­crease cre­ative po­ten­tial, as is shown in the pres­ent pop­u­la­tion of the United States of North Amer­ica. When such mat­ings take place be­tween the lower or in­fe­rior strata, cre­ativ­ity is di­min­ished, as is shown by the pres­ent-day peo­ples of south­ern In­dia.

82:6.6Race blend­ing greatly con­tributes to the sud­den ap­pear­ance of new char­ac­ter­is­tics, and if such hy­bridiza­tion is the union of su­pe­rior strains, then these new char­ac­ter­is­tics will also be su­pe­rior traits.

• on large scale most detrimental under current circumstances

82:6.7As long as pres­ent-day races are so over­loaded with in­fe­rior and de­gen­er­ate strains, race in­ter­min­gling on a large scale would be most detri­men­tal, but most of the ob­jec­tions to such ex­per­i­ments rest on so­cial and cul­tural prej­u­dices rather than on bi­o­log­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions. Even among in­fe­rior stocks, hy­brids of­ten are an im­prove­ment on their an­ces­tors. Hy­bridiza­tion makes for species im­prove­ment be­cause of the role of the dom­i­nant genes. Racial in­ter­mix­ture in­creases the like­li­hood of a larger num­ber of the de­sir­able dom­i­nants be­ing pres­ent in the hy­brid.

• half-breeds chief troubles due to prejudice

82:6.8For the past hun­dred years more racial hy­bridiza­tion has been tak­ing place on Uran­tia than has oc­curred in thou­sands of years. The dan­ger of gross dishar­monies as a re­sult of cross­breed­ing of hu­man stocks has been greatly ex­ag­ger­ated. The chief trou­bles of “half-breeds” are due to so­cial prej­u­dices.

82:6.9The Pit­cairn ex­per­i­ment of blend­ing the white and Poly­ne­sian races turned out fairly well be­cause the white men and the Poly­ne­sian women were of fairly good racial strains. In­ter­breed­ing be­tween the high­est types of the white, red, and yel­low races would im­me­di­ately bring into ex­is­tence many new and bi­o­log­i­cally ef­fec­tive char­ac­ter­is­tics. These three peo­ples be­long to the pri­mary San­gik races. Mix­tures of the white and black races are not so de­sir­able in their im­me­di­ate re­sults, nei­ther are such mu­latto off­spring so ob­jec­tion­able as so­cial and racial prej­u­dice would seek to make them ap­pear. Phys­i­cally, such white-black hy­brids are ex­cel­lent spec­i­mens of hu­man­ity, not­with­stand­ing their slight in­fe­ri­or­ity in some other re­spects.

82:6.10When a pri­mary San­gik race amal­ga­mates with a sec­ondary San­gik race, the lat­ter is con­sid­er­ably im­proved at the ex­pense of the for­mer. And on a small scale—ex­tend­ing over long pe­ri­ods of time—there can be lit­tle se­ri­ous ob­jec­tion to such a sac­ri­fi­cial con­tri­bu­tion by the pri­mary races to the bet­ter­ment of the sec­ondary groups. Bi­o­log­i­cally con­sid­ered, the sec­ondary San­giks were in some re­spects su­pe­rior to the pri­mary races.

82:6.11Af­ter all, the real jeop­ardy of the hu­man species is to be found in the un­re­strained mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of the in­fe­rior and de­gen­er­ate strains of the var­i­ous civ­i­lized peo­ples rather than in any sup­posed dan­ger of their racial in­ter­breed­ing.

82:6.12[Pre­sented by the Chief of Ser­a­phim sta­tioned on Uran­tia.]

134:2.3Of all his world trav­els this Caspian Sea trip car­ried Je­sus near­est to the Ori­ent and en­abled him to gain a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of the Far-East­ern peo­ples. He made in­ti­mate and per­sonal con­tact with ev­ery one of the sur­viv­ing races of Uran­tia ex­cept­ing the red. He equally en­joyed his per­sonal min­istry to each of these var­ied races and blended peo­ples, and all of them were re­cep­tive to the liv­ing truth which he brought them. The Eu­ro­peans from the Far West and the Asi­at­ics from the Far East alike gave at­ten­tion to his words of hope and eter­nal life and were equally in­flu­enced by the life of lov­ing ser­vice and spir­i­tual min­istry which he so gra­ciously lived among them.

28:6.52. The Mem­ory of Mercy. These are the ac­tual, full and re­plete, liv­ing rec­ords of the mercy which has been ex­tended to in­di­vid­u­als and races by the ten­der min­is­tra­tions of the in­stru­men­tal­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit in the mis­sion of adapt­ing the jus­tice of righ­teous­ness to the sta­tus of the realms, as dis­closed by the por­tray­als of the Sig­nif­i­cance of Ori­gins. The Mem­ory of Mercy dis­closes the moral debt of the chil­dren of mercy—their spir­i­tual li­a­bil­i­ties—to be set down against their as­sets of the sav­ing pro­vi­sion es­tab­lished by the Sons of God. In re­veal­ing the Fa­ther’s pre-ex­is­tent mercy, the Sons of God es­tab­lish the nec­es­sary credit to in­sure the sur­vival of all. And then, in ac­cor­dance with the find­ings of the Sig­nif­i­cance of Ori­gins, a mercy credit is es­tab­lished for the sur­vival of each ra­tio­nal crea­ture, a credit of lav­ish pro­por­tions and one of suf­fi­cient grace to in­sure the sur­vival of ev­ery soul who re­ally de­sires di­vine cit­i­zen­ship.

65:3.5Long be­fore the Ma­te­rial Son and Daugh­ter, the bi­o­logic up­lifters, ar­rive on a planet, the hu­man po­ten­tials of the evolv­ing an­i­mal species have been ex­hausted. This bi­o­logic sta­tus of an­i­mal life is dis­closed to the Life Car­ri­ers by the phe­nom­e­non of the third phase of ad­ju­tant spirit mo­bi­liza­tion, which au­to­mat­i­cally oc­curs con­comi­tantly with the ex­haus­tion of the ca­pac­ity of all an­i­mal life to give ori­gin to the mu­tant po­ten­tials of pre­hu­man in­di­vid­u­als.

65:3.6Man­kind on Uran­tia must solve its prob­lems of mor­tal de­vel­op­ment with the hu­man stocks it has—no more races will evolve from pre­hu­man sources through­out all fu­ture time. But this fact does not pre­clude the pos­si­bil­ity of the at­tain­ment of vastly higher lev­els of hu­man de­vel­op­ment through the in­tel­li­gent fos­ter­ing of the evo­lu­tion­ary po­ten­tials still res­i­dent in the mor­tal races. That which we, the Life Car­ri­ers, do to­ward fos­ter­ing and con­serv­ing the life strains be­fore the ap­pear­ance of hu­man will, man must do for him­self af­ter such an event and sub­se­quent to our re­tire­ment from ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in evo­lu­tion. In a gen­eral way, man’s evo­lu­tion­ary des­tiny is in his own hands, and sci­en­tific in­tel­li­gence must sooner or later su­per­sede the ran­dom func­tion­ing of un­con­trolled nat­u­ral se­lec­tion and chance sur­vival.

52:2.9The races are pu­ri­fied and brought up to a high state of phys­i­cal per­fec­tion and in­tel­lec­tual strength be­fore the end of this era. The early de­vel­op­ment of a nor­mal world is greatly helped by the plan of pro­mot­ing the in­crease of the higher types of mor­tals with pro­por­tion­ate cur­tail­ment of the lower. And it is the fail­ure of your early peo­ples to thus dis­crim­i­nate be­tween these types that ac­counts for the pres­ence of so many de­fec­tive and de­gen­er­ate in­di­vid­u­als among the pres­ent-day Uran­tia races.

52:2.11This prob­lem of race im­prove­ment is not such an ex­ten­sive un­der­tak­ing when it is at­tacked at this early date in hu­man evo­lu­tion. The pre­ced­ing pe­riod of tribal strug­gles and rugged com­pe­ti­tion in race sur­vival has weeded out most of the ab­nor­mal and de­fec­tive strains. An id­iot does not have much chance of sur­vival in a prim­i­tive and war­ring tribal so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tion. It is the false sen­ti­ment of your par­tially per­fected civ­i­liza­tions that fos­ters, pro­tects, and per­pet­u­ates the hope­lessly de­fec­tive strains of evo­lu­tion­ary hu­man stocks.

• natural antipathy between r.

39:5.42. The Spir­its of Broth­er­hood. It should be ap­par­ent that, when an Adam and Eve ar­rive on an evo­lu­tion­ary world, the task of achiev­ing racial har­mony and so­cial co-op­er­a­tion among its di­verse races is one of con­sid­er­able pro­por­tions. Sel­dom do these races of dif­fer­ent col­ors and var­ied na­tures take kindly to the plan of hu­man broth­er­hood. These prim­i­tive men only come to re­al­ize the wis­dom of peace­ful in­teras­so­ci­a­tion as a re­sult of ripened hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence and through the faith­ful min­istry of the se­raphic spir­its of broth­er­hood. With­out the work of these ser­a­phim the ef­forts of the Ma­te­rial Sons to har­mo­nize and ad­vance the races of an evolv­ing world would be greatly de­layed. And had your Adam ad­hered to the orig­i­nal plan for the ad­vance­ment of Uran­tia, by this time these spir­its of broth­er­hood would have worked un­be­liev­able trans­for­ma­tions in the hu­man race. In view of the Adamic de­fault, it is in­deed re­mark­able that these se­raphic or­ders have been able to fos­ter and bring to re­al­iza­tion even as much of broth­er­hood as you now have on Uran­tia.

• relentless warfare sometimes obliterates whole primitive peoples

52:1.3Prim­i­tive men are mighty hunters and fierce fight­ers. The law of this age is the phys­i­cal sur­vival of the fittest; the gov­ern­ment of these times is wholly tribal. Dur­ing the early racial strug­gles on many worlds some of the evo­lu­tion­ary races are oblit­er­ated, as oc­curred on Uran­tia. Those who sur­vive are usu­ally sub­se­quently blended with the later im­ported vi­o­let race, the Adamic peo­ples.

52:2.10One of the great achieve­ments of the age of the prince is this re­stric­tion of the mul­ti­pli­ca­tion of men­tally de­fec­tive and so­cially un­fit in­di­vid­u­als. Long be­fore the times of the ar­rival of the sec­ond Sons, the Adams, most worlds se­ri­ously ad­dress them­selves to the tasks of race pu­rifi­ca­tion, some­thing which the Uran­tia peo­ples have not even yet se­ri­ously un­der­taken.

52:2.12It is nei­ther ten­der­ness nor al­tru­ism to be­stow fu­tile sym­pa­thy upon de­gen­er­ated hu­man be­ings, un­salv­able ab­nor­mal and in­fe­rior mor­tals. There ex­ist on even the most nor­mal of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds suf­fi­cient dif­fer­ences be­tween in­di­vid­u­als and be­tween nu­mer­ous so­cial groups to pro­vide for the full ex­er­cise of all those no­ble traits of al­tru­is­tic sen­ti­ment and un­selfish mor­tal min­istry with­out per­pet­u­at­ing the so­cially un­fit and the morally de­gen­er­ate strains of evolv­ing hu­man­ity. There is abun­dant op­por­tu­nity for the ex­er­cise of tol­er­ance and the func­tion of al­tru­ism in be­half of those un­for­tu­nate and needy in­di­vid­u­als who have not ir­re­triev­ably lost their moral her­itage and for­ever de­stroyed their spir­i­tual birthright.

• peace seldom attained until r. fairly well blended

52:3.10The post-Adamic epoch is the dis­pen­sa­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al­ism. With the near com­ple­tion of the task of race blend­ing, na­tion­al­ism wanes, and the broth­er­hood of man re­ally be­gins to ma­te­ri­al­ize. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment be­gins to take the place of the monar­chial or pa­ter­nal form of ruler­ship. The ed­u­ca­tional sys­tem be­comes world-wide, and grad­u­ally the lan­guages of the races give way to the tongue of the vi­o­let peo­ple. Uni­ver­sal peace and co-op­er­a­tion are sel­dom at­tained un­til the races are fairly well blended, and un­til they speak a com­mon lan­guage.

• existence of multicolored r. handicaps high attainment
• Urantia handicapped by existence of

55:3.21The great hand­i­cap con­fronting Uran­tia in the mat­ter of at­tain­ing the high plan­e­tary des­tiny of light and life is em­braced in the prob­lems of dis­ease, de­gen­er­acy, war, mul­ti­col­ored races, and mul­ti­lin­gual­ism.

• Urantia handicapped by existence of

55:3.22No evo­lu­tion­ary world can hope to pro­gress be­yond the first stage of set­tled­ness in light un­til it has achieved one lan­guage, one re­li­gion, and one phi­los­o­phy. Be­ing of one race greatly fa­cil­i­tates such achieve­ment, but the many peo­ples of Uran­tia do not pre­clude the at­tain­ment of higher stages.

• natural antipathy between r.

79:5.4Grow­ing pop­u­la­tion pres­sure caused the north­ward-mov­ing yel­low race to be­gin to push into the hunt­ing grounds of the red man. This en­croach­ment, cou­pled with nat­u­ral racial an­tag­o­nism, cul­mi­nated in in­creas­ing hos­til­i­ties, and thus be­gan the cru­cial strug­gle for the fer­tile lands of far­ther Asia.

• composite natures render it difficult for Adjusters to work efficiently

111:7.4The higher hu­man races of Uran­tia are com­plexly ad­mixed; they are a blend of many races and stocks of dif­fer­ent ori­gin. This com­pos­ite na­ture ren­ders it ex­ceed­ingly dif­fi­cult for the Mon­i­tors to work ef­fi­ciently dur­ing life and adds def­i­nitely to the prob­lems of both the Ad­juster and the guard­ian ser­a­phim af­ter death. Not long since I was pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton and heard a guard­ian of des­tiny pre­sent a for­mal state­ment in ex­ten­u­a­tion of the dif­fi­cul­ties of min­is­ter­ing to her mor­tal sub­ject. This ser­a­phim said:

81:6.4At the open­ing of the And­ite era there were only two ex­ten­sive and fer­tile open hunt­ing ar­eas in all the world. One was in North Amer­ica and was over­spread by the Amerinds; the other was to the north of Tur­kes­tan and was partly oc­cu­pied by an An­donic-yel­low race. The de­ci­sive fac­tors in the evo­lu­tion of a su­pe­rior cul­ture in south­west­ern Asia were race and cli­mate. The And­ites were a great peo­ple, but the cru­cial fac­tor in de­ter­min­ing the course of their civ­i­liza­tion was the in­creas­ing arid­ity of Iran, Tur­kes­tan, and Sinkiang, which forced them to in­vent and adopt new and ad­vanced meth­ods of wrest­ing a liveli­hood from their de­creas­ingly fer­tile lands.

• to separate warlike man

63:4.9It is im­pos­si­ble to in­duce such prim­i­tive be­ings long to live to­gether in peace. Man is the de­scen­dant of fight­ing an­i­mals, and when closely as­so­ci­ated, un­cul­tured peo­ple ir­ri­tate and of­fend each other. The Life Car­ri­ers know this ten­dency among evo­lu­tion­ary crea­tures and ac­cord­ingly make pro­vi­sion for the even­tual sep­a­ra­tion of de­vel­op­ing hu­man be­ings into at least three, and more of­ten six, dis­tinct and sep­a­rate races.

74:2.5Soon af­ter their awak­en­ing, Adam and Eve were es­corted to the for­mal re­cep­tion on the great mound to the north of the tem­ple. This nat­u­ral hill had been en­larged and made ready for the in­stal­la­tion of the world’s new rulers. Here, at noon, the Uran­tia re­cep­tion com­mit­tee wel­comed this Son and Daugh­ter of the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia. Amadon was chair­man of this com­mit­tee, which con­sisted of twelve mem­bers em­brac­ing a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of each of the six San­gik races; the act­ing chief of the mid­way­ers; An­nan, a loyal daugh­ter and spokesman for the Nod­ites; Noah, the son of the ar­chi­tect and builder of the Gar­den and ex­ec­u­tive of his de­ceased fa­ther’s plans; and the two res­i­dent Life Car­ri­ers.

47:3.5From the Tem­ple of New Life there ex­tend seven ra­dial wings, the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the mor­tal races. Each of these struc­tures is de­voted to the as­sem­bly of one of the seven races of time. There are one hun­dred thou­sand per­sonal res­ur­rec­tion cham­bers in each of these seven wings ter­mi­nat­ing in the cir­cu­lar class as­sem­bly halls, which serve as the awak­en­ing cham­bers for as many as one mil­lion in­di­vid­u­als. These halls are sur­rounded by the per­son­al­ity as­sem­bly cham­bers of the blended races of the nor­mal post-Adamic worlds. Re­gard­less of the tech­nique which may be em­ployed on the in­di­vid­ual worlds of time in con­nec­tion with spe­cial or dis­pen­sa­tional res­ur­rec­tions, the real and con­scious re­assem­bly of ac­tual and com­plete per­son­al­ity takes place in the res­ur­rec­tion halls of man­so­nia num­ber one. Through­out all eter­nity you will re­call the pro­found mem­ory im­pres­sions of your first wit­ness­ing of these res­ur­rec­tion morn­ings.

81:6.7Dur­ing prim­i­tive times life on Uran­tia was a se­ri­ous and sober busi­ness. And it was to es­cape this in­ces­sant strug­gle and in­ter­minable toil that man­kind con­stantly tended to drift to­ward the salu­bri­ous cli­mate of the trop­ics. While these warmer zones of habi­ta­tion af­forded some re­mis­sion from the in­tense strug­gle for ex­is­tence, the races and tribes who thus sought ease sel­dom uti­lized their un­earned leisure for the ad­vance­ment of civ­i­liza­tion. So­cial prog­ress has in­vari­ably come from the thoughts and plans of those races that have, by their in­tel­li­gent toil, learned how to wrest a liv­ing from the land with less­ened ef­fort and short­ened days of la­bor and thus have been able to en­joy a well-earned and prof­itable mar­gin of leisure.

96:2.1The Semites of the East were well-or­ga­nized and well-led horse­men who in­vaded the east­ern re­gions of the fer­tile cres­cent and there united with the Baby­lo­ni­ans. The Chaldeans near Ur were among the most ad­vanced of the east­ern Semites. The Phoeni­cians were a su­pe­rior and well-or­ga­nized group of mixed Semites who held the west­ern sec­tion of Pales­tine, along the Med­i­ter­ra­nean coast. Racially the Semites were among the most blended of Uran­tia peo­ples, con­tain­ing hered­i­tary fac­tors from al­most all of the nine world races.

134:4.7God is spirit, and God gives a frag­ment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spir­i­tu­ally, all men are equal. The king­dom of heaven is free from castes, classes, so­cial lev­els, and eco­nomic groups. You are all breth­ren.

• primary Sangik races › are red, yellow, blue
• secondary Sangik races › are orange, green, indigo

49:4.2There are six ba­sic evo­lu­tion­ary races: three pri­mary—red, yel­low, and blue; and three sec­ondary—or­ange, green, and in­digo. Most in­hab­ited worlds have all of these races, but many of the three-brained plan­ets har­bor only the three pri­mary types. Some lo­cal sys­tems also have only these three races.