The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 275
natural wealth, and almost unlimited resources of
Africa says:
"It is pertinent to inquire if such a continent, so
Ofcttfitted with resources for food, clothing*, transportation,
intercommunication and commerce,^ is a situation
suited to cramp the manhood of an indig-inous race.
Are these the conditions under which the grade of
humanity would sink from the level of Adai^ and
Noah to that of a naked black skin, driveling- in filth
and wretchedness on the banks of the Congo or the
Zambesi; while under the climatic vicissitudes of
Western Asia and Europe, the same type has risen
perpetual 1}^ through all grades of advancing* civilization?
* * *
Our wonder at the stationary savag-eism
of virgin Africa is greatly
enhanced when we
reflect on the relations of civilized peoples
continent.
to that
Ever since the dawn of Accadian civilization
in western Asia an open highway of communication
has existed between the continents— not to speak
of actual communication across the strait of Babel-
Mandeb.
More than this, Asiatic civilization entered
Africa and spread itself over the valley of the Nile
and the Mediterranean border, at a period so remote
as to be obscured in the twilight of human history.
It brought with it the cereals and finally the domesticated
animals of Asia. It introduced the arts of
industry and the rudiments of the sciences. It established
a religious cult which was monotheistic, and
remarkably pure and elevated.
It opened commercial