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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.

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.

78:3.8The peo­ples of In­dia lay stag­nant, with a civ­i­liza­tion that was un­pro­gress­ing; the yel­low man was con­sol­i­dat­ing his hold­ings in cen­tral Asia; the brown man had not yet be­gun his civ­i­liza­tion on the near-by is­lands of the Pa­cific.

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.

79:6.1Some­time af­ter driv­ing the red man across to North Amer­ica, the ex­pand­ing Chi­nese cleared the An­don­ites from the river val­leys of east­ern Asia, push­ing them north into Siberia and west into Tur­kes­tan, where they were soon to come in con­tact with the su­pe­rior cul­ture of the And­ites.

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.

64:7.4The 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.

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

79:5.2While the early Ne­an­derthalers were spread out over the en­tire breadth of Eura­sia, the east­ern wing was the more con­tam­i­nated with de­based an­i­mal strains. These sub­hu­man types were pushed south by the fifth glacier, the same ice sheet which so long blocked San­gik mi­gra­tion into east­ern Asia. And when the red man moved north­east around the high­lands of In­dia, he found north­east­ern Asia free from these sub­hu­man types. The tribal or­ga­ni­za­tion of the red races was formed ear­lier than that of any other peo­ples, and they were the first to mi­grate from the cen­tral Asian fo­cus of the San­giks. The in­fe­rior Ne­an­derthal strains were de­stroyed or driven off the main­land by the later mi­grat­ing yel­low tribes. But the red man had reigned su­preme in east­ern Asia for al­most one hun­dred thou­sand years be­fore the yel­low tribes ar­rived.

79:5.3More than three hun­dred thou­sand years ago the main body of the yel­low race en­tered China from the south as coast­wise mi­grants. Each mil­len­nium they pen­e­trated far­ther and far­ther in­land, but they did not make con­tact with their mi­grat­ing Ti­betan breth­ren un­til com­par­a­tively re­cent times.

79:5.1While the story of In­dia is that of And­ite con­quest and even­tual sub­mer­gence in the older evo­lu­tion­ary peo­ples, the nar­ra­tive of east­ern Asia is more prop­erly that of the pri­mary San­giks, par­tic­u­larly the red man and the yel­low man. These two races largely es­caped that ad­mix­ture with the de­based Ne­an­derthal strain which so greatly re­tarded the blue man in Eu­rope, thus pre­serv­ing the su­pe­rior po­ten­tial of the pri­mary San­gik type.

79:6.71. Ge­netic. Un­like their blue cousins in Eu­rope, both the red and yel­low races had largely es­caped mix­ture with de­based hu­man stocks. The north­ern Chi­nese, al­ready strength­ened by small amounts of the su­pe­rior red and An­donic strains, were soon to ben­e­fit by a con­sid­er­able in­flux of And­ite blood. The south­ern Chi­nese did not fare so well in this re­gard, and they had long suf­fered from ab­sorp­tion of the green race, while later on they were to be fur­ther weak­ened by the in­fil­tra­tion of the swarms of in­fe­rior peo­ples crowded out of In­dia by the Dra­vid­ian-And­ite in­va­sion. And to­day in China there is a def­i­nite dif­fer­ence be­tween the north­ern and south­ern races.

79:6.6The su­pe­ri­or­ity of the an­cient yel­low race was due to four great fac­tors:

79:6.82. So­cial. The yel­low race early learned the value of peace among them­selves. Their in­ter­nal peace­able­ness so con­tributed to pop­u­la­tion in­crease as to in­sure the spread of their civ­i­liza­tion among many mil­lions. From 25,000 to 5000 B.C. the high­est mass civ­i­liza­tion on Uran­tia was in cen­tral and north­ern China. The yel­low man was first to achieve a racial sol­i­dar­ity—the first to at­tain a large-scale cul­tural, so­cial, and po­lit­i­cal civ­i­liza­tion.

79:6.9The Chi­nese of 15,000 B.C. were ag­gres­sive mil­i­tarists; they had not been weak­ened by an over­rev­er­ence for the past, and num­ber­ing less than twelve mil­lion, they formed a com­pact body speak­ing a com­mon lan­guage. Dur­ing this age they built up a real na­tion, much more united and ho­mo­ge­neous than their po­lit­i­cal unions of his­toric times.

79:6.103. Spir­i­tual. Dur­ing the age of And­ite mi­gra­tions the Chi­nese were among the more spir­i­tual peo­ples of earth. Long ad­her­ence to the wor­ship of the One Truth pro­claimed by Singlang­ton kept them ahead of most of the other races. The stim­u­lus of a pro­gres­sive and ad­vanced re­li­gion is of­ten a de­ci­sive fac­tor in cul­tural de­vel­op­ment; as In­dia lan­guished, so China forged ahead un­der the in­vig­o­rat­ing stim­u­lus of a re­li­gion in which truth was en­shrined as the su­preme De­ity.

79:6.11This wor­ship of truth was provoca­tive of re­search and fear­less ex­plo­ration of the laws of na­ture and the po­ten­tials of man­kind. The Chi­nese of even six thou­sand years ago were still keen stu­dents and ag­gres­sive in their pur­suit of truth.

79:6.124. Ge­o­graphic. China is pro­tected by the moun­tains to the west and the Pa­cific to the east. Only in the north is the way open to at­tack, and from the days of the red man to the com­ing of the later de­scen­dants of the And­ites, the north was not oc­cu­pied by any ag­gres­sive race.

79:7.3It was not that there were so many of the And­ites, nor that their cul­ture was so su­pe­rior, but amal­ga­ma­tion with them pro­duced a more ver­sa­tile stock. The north­ern Chi­nese re­ceived just enough of the And­ite strain to mildly stim­u­late their in­nately able minds but not enough to fire them with the rest­less, ex­ploratory cu­rios­ity so char­ac­ter­is­tic of the north­ern white races. This more lim­ited in­fu­sion of And­ite in­her­i­tance was less dis­turb­ing to the in­nate sta­bil­ity of the San­gik type.

79:7.5The Chi­nese peo­ple did not be­gin to build cities and en­gage in man­u­fac­ture un­til af­ter 10,000 B.C., sub­se­quent to the cli­matic changes in Tur­kes­tan and the ar­rival of the later And­ite im­mi­grants. The in­fu­sion of this new blood did not add so much to the civ­i­liza­tion of the yel­low man as it stim­u­lated the fur­ther and rapid de­vel­op­ment of the la­tent ten­den­cies of the su­pe­rior Chi­nese stocks. From Ho­nan to Shensi the po­ten­tials of an ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tion were com­ing to fruit. Met­al­work­ing and all the arts of man­u­fac­ture date from these days.

79:8.15The for­ma­tive pe­riod of Chi­nese civ­i­liza­tion, open­ing with the com­ing of the And­ites, con­tin­ues on down to the great eth­i­cal, moral, and semire­li­gious awak­en­ing of the sixth cen­tury be­fore Christ. And Chi­nese tra­di­tion pre­serves the hazy rec­ord of the evo­lu­tion­ary past; the tran­si­tion from mother- to fa­ther-fam­ily, the es­tab­lish­ment of agri­cul­ture, the de­vel­op­ment of ar­chi­tec­ture, the ini­ti­a­tion of in­dus­try—all these are suc­ces­sively nar­rated. And this story pre­sents, with greater ac­cu­racy than any other sim­i­lar ac­count, the pic­ture of the mag­nif­i­cent as­cent of a su­pe­rior peo­ple from the lev­els of bar­barism. Dur­ing this time they passed from a prim­i­tive ag­ri­cul­tural so­ci­ety to a higher so­cial or­ga­ni­za­tion em­brac­ing cities, man­u­fac­ture, met­al­work­ing, com­mer­cial ex­change, gov­ern­ment, writ­ing, math­e­mat­ics, art, sci­ence, and print­ing.

79:5.5The story of this age­long con­test be­tween the red and yel­low races is an epic of Uran­tia his­tory. For over two hun­dred thou­sand years these two su­pe­rior races waged bit­ter and un­remit­ting war­fare. In the ear­lier strug­gles the red men were gen­er­ally suc­cess­ful, their raid­ing par­ties spread­ing havoc among the yel­low set­tle­ments. But the yel­low man was an apt pupil in the art of war­fare, and he early man­i­fested a marked abil­ity to live peace­ably with his com­pa­tri­ots; the Chi­nese were the first to learn that in union there is strength. The red tribes con­tin­ued their in­ternecine con­flicts, and pres­ently they be­gan to suf­fer re­peated de­feats at the ag­gres­sive hands of the re­lent­less Chi­nese, who con­tin­ued their in­ex­orable march north­ward.

79:5.8The red and the yel­low races are the only hu­man stocks that ever achieved a high de­gree of civ­i­liza­tion apart from the in­flu­ences of the And­ites. The old­est Amerindian cul­ture was the Ona­mo­na­lon­ton cen­ter in Cal­i­for­nia, but this had long since van­ished by 35,000 B.C. In Mex­ico, Cen­tral Amer­ica, and in the moun­tains of South Amer­ica the later and more en­dur­ing civ­i­liza­tions were founded by a race pre­dom­i­nantly red but con­tain­ing a con­sid­er­able ad­mix­ture of the yel­low, or­ange, and blue.

79:2.2The ear­li­est race mix­tures in In­dia were a blend­ing of the mi­grat­ing red and yel­low races with the abo­rig­i­nal An­don­ites. This group was later weak­ened by ab­sorb­ing the greater por­tion of the ex­tinct east­ern green peo­ples as well as large num­bers of the or­ange race, was slightly im­proved through lim­ited ad­mix­ture with the blue man, but suf­fered ex­ceed­ingly through as­sim­i­la­tion of large num­bers of the in­digo race. But the so-called abo­rig­ines of In­dia are hardly rep­re­sen­ta­tive of these early peo­ple; they are rather the most in­fe­rior south­ern and east­ern fringe, which was never fully ab­sorbed by ei­ther the early And­ites or their later ap­pear­ing Aryan cousins.

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.

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.

79:6.3Many dif­fer­ent races oc­cu­pied the is­lands of the Pa­cific. In gen­eral, the south­ern and then more ex­ten­sive is­lands were oc­cu­pied by peo­ples car­ry­ing a heavy per­cent­age of green and in­digo blood. The north­ern is­lands were held by An­don­ites and, later on, by races em­brac­ing large pro­por­tions of the yel­low and red stocks. The an­ces­tors of the Japanese peo­ple were not driven off the main­land un­til 12,000 B.C., when they were dis­lodged by a pow­er­ful south­ern-coast­wise thrust of the north­ern Chi­nese tribes. Their fi­nal ex­o­dus was not so much due to pop­u­la­tion pres­sure as to the ini­tia­tive of a chief­tain whom they came to re­gard as a di­vine per­son­age.

78:5.6These And­ites were the so-called Dra­vid­ian and later Aryan con­querors of In­dia; and their pres­ence in cen­tral Asia greatly up­stepped the an­ces­tors of the Tu­ra­ni­ans. Many of this race jour­neyed to China by way of both Sinkiang and Ti­bet and added de­sir­able qual­i­ties to the later Chi­nese stocks. From time to time small groups made their way into Japan, For­mosa, the East In­dies, and south­ern China, though very few en­tered south­ern China by the coastal route.

78:6.4Ten per cent of the Mes­o­po­ta­mi­ans turned east­ward in their north­ern trek, en­ter­ing Sinkiang, where they blended with the And­ite-yel­low in­hab­i­tants. The ma­jor­ity of the able off­spring of this racial union later en­tered China and con­tributed much to the im­me­di­ate im­prove­ment of the north­ern di­vi­sion of the yel­low race.

79:7.1About fif­teen thou­sand years ago the And­ites, in con­sid­er­able num­bers, were travers­ing the pass of Ti Tao and spread­ing out over the up­per val­ley of the Yel­low River among the Chi­nese set­tle­ments of Kansu. Pres­ently they pen­e­trated east­ward to Ho­nan, where the most pro­gres­sive set­tle­ments were sit­u­ated. This in­fil­tra­tion from the west was about half An­don­ite and half And­ite.

79:7.2The north­ern cen­ters of cul­ture along the Yel­low River had al­ways been more pro­gres­sive than the south­ern set­tle­ments on the Yangtze. Within a few thou­sand years af­ter the ar­rival of even the small num­bers of these su­pe­rior mor­tals, the set­tle­ments along the Yel­low River had forged ahead of the Yangtze vil­lages and had achieved an ad­vanced po­si­tion over their breth­ren in the south which has ever since been main­tained.

79:7.4The later waves of And­ites brought with them cer­tain of the cul­tural ad­vances of Mes­o­po­ta­mia; this is es­pe­cially true of the last waves of mi­gra­tion from the west. They greatly im­proved the eco­nomic and ed­u­ca­tional prac­tices of the north­ern Chi­nese; and while their in­flu­ence upon the re­li­gious cul­ture of the yel­low race was short-lived, their later de­scen­dants con­tributed much to a sub­se­quent spir­i­tual awak­en­ing. But the And­ite tra­di­tions of the beauty of Eden and Dala­ma­tia did in­flu­ence Chi­nese tra­di­tions; early Chi­nese leg­ends place “the land of the gods” in the west.

79:7.6The sim­i­lar­i­ties be­tween cer­tain of the early Chi­nese and Mes­o­po­ta­mian meth­ods of time reck­on­ing, as­tron­omy, and gov­ern­men­tal ad­min­is­tra­tion were due to the com­mer­cial re­la­tion­ships be­tween these two re­motely sit­u­ated cen­ters. Chi­nese mer­chants trav­eled the over­land routes through Tur­kes­tan to Mes­o­po­ta­mia even in the days of the Sume­ri­ans. Nor was this ex­change one-sided—the val­ley of the Eu­phrates ben­e­fited con­sid­er­ably thereby, as did the peo­ples of the Gangetic plain. But the cli­matic changes and the no­madic in­va­sions of the third mil­len­nium be­fore Christ greatly re­duced the vol­ume of trade pass­ing over the car­a­van trails of cen­tral Asia.

80:1.5Adam’s blood has been shared with most of the hu­man races, but some se­cured more than oth­ers. The mixed races of In­dia and the darker peo­ples of Africa were not at­trac­tive to the Adamites. They would have mixed freely with the red man had he not been far re­moved in the Amer­i­cas, and they were kindly dis­posed to­ward the yel­low man, but he was like­wise dif­fi­cult of ac­cess in far­away Asia. There­fore, when ac­tu­ated by ei­ther ad­ven­ture or al­tru­ism, or when driven out of the Eu­phrates val­ley, they very nat­u­rally chose union with the blue races of Eu­rope.

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:

80:0.2The mod­ern white peo­ples in­cor­po­rate the sur­viv­ing strains of the Adamic stock which be­came ad­mixed with the San­gik races, some red and yel­low but more es­pe­cially the blue. There is a con­sid­er­able per­cent­age of the orig­i­nal An­don­ite stock in all the white races and still more of the early Nod­ite strains.

80:3.2While we speak of the blue man as per­vad­ing the Eu­ro­pean con­ti­nent, there were scores of racial types. Even thirty-five thou­sand years ago the Eu­ro­pean blue races were al­ready a highly blended peo­ple car­ry­ing strains of both red and yel­low, while on the At­lantic coast­lands and in the re­gions of pres­ent-day Rus­sia they had ab­sorbed a con­sid­er­able amount of An­don­ite blood and to the south were in con­tact with the Sa­ha­ran peo­ples. But it would be fruit­less to at­tempt to enu­mer­ate the many racial groups.

80:9.21. The north­ern white race. This so-called Nordic race con­sisted pri­mar­ily of the blue man plus the And­ite but also con­tained a con­sid­er­able amount of An­don­ite blood, to­gether with smaller amounts of the red and yel­low San­gik. The north­ern white race thus en­com­passed these four most de­sir­able hu­man stocks. But the largest in­her­i­tance was from the blue man. The typ­i­cal early Nordic was long-headed, tall, and blond. But long ago this race be­came thor­oughly mixed with all of the branches of the white peo­ples.

80:9.52. The cen­tral white race. While this group in­cludes strains of blue, yel­low, and And­ite, it is pre­dom­i­nantly An­don­ite. These peo­ple are broad-headed, swarthy, and stocky. They are driven like a wedge be­tween the Nordic and Med­i­ter­ra­nean races, with the broad base rest­ing in Asia and the apex pen­e­trat­ing east­ern France.

80:9.10These racial mix­tures laid the foun­da­tions for the south­ern Eu­ro­pean race, the most highly mixed of all. And since these days this race has un­der­gone still fur­ther ad­mix­ture, no­tably with the blue-yel­low-And­ite peo­ples of Ara­bia. This Med­i­ter­ra­nean race is, in fact, so freely ad­mixed with the sur­round­ing peo­ples as to be vir­tu­ally in­dis­cernible as a sep­a­rate type, but in gen­eral its mem­bers are short, long-headed, and brunet.

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.