It is only when men are opposed to one another; when they depart from
the Divine intention to unify all men, that man is designated according
to his racial or national designation. For instance: The wars between
the Jews and the Ethiopians three thousand years before Christ; the wars
of the Romans, Persians, Assyrians, English, French, and all other
divergent upheavals which depart from the Divine Design. In such cases
the psychological man, the man with a soul, the man into whom God
breathed the breath of life, is considered a different being and he is
unified as “=Man=.”
Not only is this distinctive unity of soul, of mind, of intelligence,
the predominating feature of the creation, known as “man,” but his
physical characteristics outside the mere skin deep differences, are
exactly the same.
Modern scientists, known as “biologists,” that is, men who investigate
the origin of physical life in men, have advanced so far that they know
and can easily demonstrate that there are no physical differences.
The infinitely small cells called “protoplasms,” which make up the
tissues of the human body, and which are present everywhere, plainly
visible to the eye under a microscope, are exactly the same in every
human being whatever his race or color, condition, education,
environment, etc.
All the machinery upon which these small cells of life operate and give
action, energy, and duration—the heart, the nerves, the blood, and all
the organs essential or co-operative, are identically the same.
Men have tried to find a difference in the physical make-up of the
various races but they have signally failed. They have even endeavored
to compare the blood and cells of inferior animals such as apes, going
so low as the common monkey, to show that some of the races originated
in what is known as the “Anthropoid Ape,” so as to bolster up the
doctrine of evolution and maintain the existence of an exclusively,
special God created race of men, of which they are the sole and
exclusive exponents, but they, also, have signally failed, and all men
today, proven by science demonstrating the truths of Holy Writ, stand
upon the same psychological, or soul plane, whether his skin be black,
yellow, brown, red, white or any other color or shade of color. They are
all part and parcel of the Divine movement which is impelling man toward
a universal psychological unity. Any man or nation that attempts to bar
the way, is submerged or cast aside like a straw before an avalanche.
This is written upon the pages of history so clearly, that it is beyond
controversy.
PROGRESS OF THE DIFFERENT RACES OF MANKIND
Marvelous Rise of the Japanese from Barbarism in Five Decades—The Jews
without a National Government Rule the Finances and Commerce of the
World—China in Contact with Civilization Has Created a Great
Republic—The American Indian Raised From Savagery to Peaceful,
Profitable Pursuits—The Colored American’s Part and Opportunities in the
Great Onward Movement
A reader of history who does not go deeper than the mere words in books,
sees nothing but confusion in the steady, onward march of all mankind
from the dawn of creation to the present time.
We hope to bring something easily understood out of this chaos, that
will be of benefit to the Colored Americans, and put them in line with
the great movement of the human family toward universal peace and
prosperity. We expect to show that he is an essential factor in the
human race, and that he has performed his part when his ancestors, the
powerful kings of Ethiopia, brought civilization and the art of working
metals into Egypt, as far as Asia, and into Europe.
The most learned ethnologists hold that there was a time in the history
of the human race when all mankind were unified, and that through
different causes operating upon passion for power, religious differences
and climatic necessities, they became separated and split into divisions
each of which claimed supremacy, and made war upon the others who denied
it.
Wherever we begin the national history of any nation or tribe, we find
them separate from every other nation and tribe, individual entities
with their own laws and government.
If we take any fanciful theory of the creation of man, or accept the
biblical account of the Dispersion at the plain of Shinar, at the
building of the Tower of Babel, 2218 years before Christ, we find them
scattered over the face of the earth, whereas before that Dispersion
“The whole earth was one language and of one speech.” (Genesis 2:1).
After that event “The Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all
the earth.”
The races of mankind began in unity, but separated and scattered
becoming a multitude of nations with different languages and religions.
But, at the same time, visible as a fine thread through the movements of
mankind, was a trend toward another unification.