Within the past ten years, excavations in the Upper Soudan, verify the
claim that the black man was the first to discover the art of working
metals, and that they gave this knowledge to Europe and Asia. Dr.
Schweinfurth, the famous German ethnologist, and the University of
Berlin, have adopted this theory.
Lady Lugard, the authoress, gathered from old Arab books, many details
of this high civilization among the black men of the Upper Nile, their
customs and government until quite recent times.
We know as a historical fact, that the Nubians conquered Egypt, and set
the pace for a good government among the Egyptians, suppressing many of
their cruel practices.
The end of these discoveries is far from having been reached. Indeed,
they are just beginning to attract attention. Enough has been unearthed,
however, to establish the ancestry of the Colored race of America,
greater and higher than that of any of the mixed races.
The Genius of Colored Americans in Literature; The Arts and Sciences
Inherited From the Ancient Ethiopians
Read, Study, and Educate up to Opportunities—A High Racial Type Appears
in Modern Times—A Cause for Pride and an Incentive to Action, Energy and
Efficiency.
Men of learning, wisdom, and honest, without prejudice, take the
standard of a race of men from his primitive type.
That type is sought for in the most excellent productions of the race,
their achievements and their position among civilized nations that were
the founders of our present civilization.
He who grovels in the worst human elements of any race, knows nothing
about that race, and opens the door to the degeneracy of all the nations
and races on earth, by advocating them as the evidences of degeneracy.
Since the world began there have been good and bad elements among the
peoples that inhabited it, but the good elements alone have survived,
the bad or the evil has gone down into ruin. Nations that sought to
waylay and throttle progress for their own selfish ends, and immoral
purposes have been forced out into the world’s Gehenna, and in the
garbage heap there are still rummaging many of the split races of the
earth, and many individuals bury themselves in its reek refusing to
emerge into the clear sunlight.
It is, as it always has been, the great, the high hope and aim of men of
intellect, and higher aspirations than the luxuries of life which kill
the soul, to lift the evil in mankind out of the category of
civilization, and develop mind and intellect as the only adjunct toward
universal unity and peace.
To cure all the evil which afflict men of every race and people, is an
impossibility so long as the earth exists for the use and benefit of
mankind. Force has been tried, but even the death penalty does not stay
crime and disorder. The Crucified One gave up his life and took upon
himself all the sins of men, and pointed out the way for them to follow
if they would be saved. But even this Majestic, this Divine Sacrifice
has not stayed the evils afflicting man when left to his own devices, to
his own ill-regulated freedom. We know the way, indeed, and whoso
refuses to follow it, must be classed with the evils we suffer. Every
man must lift himself out of the slough.
There is food for thought in the past, which hinges much upon the
present and the future, and if it is taken in the proper spirit, it can
not fail to develop the mind, the soul, and put men on the high road
toward the accomplishment of the designs of God.