The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 325
earth; civilizations laid in ruins; vast areas, once teemingf
with an intellig-ent, industrious, happj and prosperous
population, transformed into barren virastes or
made the abode of the barbarian or the savag^e. Aside
from its criminality, the folly of this attempt is easily
seen, when we pause to consider the inferiority of
material upon which it is proposed
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to make the experiment.
Mr. Haeckel, in discussing- this question,
says:
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'Nothing-, however, is perhaps more remarkable
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than that some of the wildest tribes in
Southern Asia and Kastern Africa have no trace
whatever of the first foundations of all human civilization,
of family life and marriag-e. They live to-
in herds and their whole mode of life shows
g-ether
much more resemblance to that of wild hordes of apes
than to any civilized human community.
All attempts
to introduce civilization among these, and many of
the other tribes of the lowest human species, have
hitherto been of no avail; it is impossible to implant
human culture where the requisite soil, namely, the
perfecting- of the brain, is wanting.
Not one of these
tribes has ever been ennobled by civilization; it rather
accelerates their extinction.
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Even
many
Christian missionaries who, after long years of fruitless
endeavors to civilize these lowest races have
abandoned the attempt, express the
same harsh judgment,
and maintain that it would be easier to train the
most intelligent domestic animals to amoni) nd c* dl-