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The Negro A Beast In The Image Of GOD

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MAN, AND THE NEGRO. 349<br />

coming' of Christ. This theory which assumes that<br />

man "developed out of fish-like ancestors," themselves<br />

the result of ^'spontaneous g-eneration" necessarily<br />

assumes that **all flesh" is akin. Hence, the flesh of<br />

man may with propriety<br />

be massed in one universal<br />

zoolog-ical system, which is divisible into Classes,<br />

Orders, Genera, Species, Races, Sub-races and<br />

Varieties.<br />

As has been shown it was in his battle with this<br />

demoralizing theory, which degrades man to the level<br />

of the brute, that Paul g-ave utterance to that sublime<br />

declaration:<br />

"All flesh is not the same flesh; but there<br />

is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts,<br />

another of fishes and another of birds."<br />

*<br />

'Hence<br />

there is no kinship, no "blood relationship" as<br />

Haeckel would have us believe, between man and the<br />

animals.<br />

This being true it follows that the flesh of<br />

man can not be massed in a zoolog-ical S3'stem with<br />

that of the beasts, the fishes and the birds. <strong>The</strong>re is<br />

no "class— Mammalia," in which the flesh of man<br />

"belongs" with that of the apes, quadrupeds and<br />

whales. <strong>The</strong>re is no "order— Bimana" in which the<br />

flesh of man "belongs" with that of the apes. <strong>The</strong>re<br />

is no "genus—Homo, " embracing- Homo Mediterraneus<br />

Homo Mongolus,"<br />

"Homo <strong>In</strong>dian," "Homo Malayus"

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