The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 191
slaves, together with thousands of captives taken from
the mixed-blooded tribes and nations agfainst which
Greece waged war. These were never exported, jet
thev have long- since disappeared, leaving no progeny
of negroes in their stead. And it is a significant fact,
and one which no anthropologist, no historian and no
traveler will deny, that the white-skinned, fair-haired
Greek of
ancient times has also disappeared, leaving
no progeny of white-skinned, fair-haired Greeks.
What became of them? A glance at our surroundings
should convince us that, in an evil hour, amalgamation
laid its blighting touch upon the vitals of Greece;
and, in the course of centuries, under its destructive
influences, the white-skinned, fair-haired Greek and
the
black-skinned, woolly-haired Negro disappeared,
and were replaced by the dark-skinned, black-haired
Greek of modern times. This radical change in the
physical characters of her population was accompanied
by a corresponding change in their mentality, and,
consequently, in the status of Greece among the nations
of the earth; and that fair land, once the home
of the highest culture, became the abode of ignorance
.and superstition. Many a long century has dragged
its weary length into eternity since Greece produced a
Homer, an Aristides, a Herodotus, a Pericles, a Solon,
a Plato or a Demosthenes.
Pausing amid the busy scenes of daily life to view
the routes which man has trodden from the Creation
to the Crucifixion, or even down to the fall of the