It should be constantly borne in mind, that the Ethiopians and their
descendants, the Colored Americans in the United States, represent a
great division of the human family, which, with the others, are alone to
be considered in the great design of unification.
The Roman Empire represented no such portion of the human family.
Assyria, Persia, Egypt, and the dominating historical peoples were all
mixed, and when their uses had culminated, that is, when there was no
more use for them, or when they ventured to assume superiority over the
rest of the earth, they were submerged.
Of the mighty races that constituted the primitive divisions of man,
there are now remaining, with each bearing a sharp line of distinction
between them, the Aryan, Semitic, Turanian, and Ethiopian. Into these
four divisions all the nations and peoples of the earth may be resolved.
It may be said that the Aryan consists of the white race; the Ethiopian,
or Hamitic of the dark race; the Semitic, the Jews, and the Turanian,
the yellow race, of which the Japanese are a mere branch of a
subdivision.
Each of these great divisions of the human family has its own part to
play in the great drama of the world’s progress, and the elimination of
brute force or the physical as a negative element in progress, has
brought these grand divisions face to face with the problem of
psychology, mind or soul. It is immaterial what it is called, it cannot
be disregarded.
The conditions or environments that have hedged in these great divisions
have appeared to be similar in the world’s history. The Jews had their
mighty empire. The Aryan developed into enormous power, but broke into
fragments. The Ethiopian possessed the initial civilization of the
world, and the Turanian, evidenced by the Chinese, have still a high
position in the world.
Let us give a few details and then proceed to the progress of our
Colored Americans toward the fulfillment of the great design:
The Jews lost their physical empire to become a psychological force. The
Aryan became split into numerous branches which are now existing and
moving steadily forward toward the psychological. The Turanians that
controlled the Orient for ages by their physical prowess, have become a
great republic based upon the power of mind. The great Ethiopian empire
after leaving its impress upon the civilization of the world, was
transformed into the psychological progress of the other members of the
human family.
It will be perceived that all of them are drifting toward the same
point, and that each of them is employing all the advantages and devices
of modern life to continue on the march toward that point, at which all
men shall be of one mind, one soul.