CHAPTER XVI.

CONCLUSION.

is not claimed that all the conclusions reached

In the preceding are clearly demonstrated,

but it is insisted that they are sufficiently probable to control our relations towards the inferior races, and should elicit the serious consideration of all who are themselves, or have friends and relatives, in proximity to the black and yellow races.

We act on probability in some of the most important affairs of life, and it is more than probable that the various types of mankind are unalterable, and have been from their creation such as we now find them, because they have been unchanged for several thousand years, notwithstanding the operation of causes that would apparently tend to their assimilation. This, or the diversity of the origin of races, is the great question herein earnestly urged, and should not be lost sight of in less important discussions of matters connected with it.

The unity theory, or monogeny, is unreasonable, unnatural and opposed to our instincts—a mere figment inconsistent with the revealed word of God. It disregards the plain distinction He has made, and impiously attempts to improve on His work and

countervail His providence. It has proved a curse wherever an opportunity has been afforded for the operation of its principles. It has degraded the Caucasian wherever it has brought him into unnatural and forbidden union with those whom his Creator made beneath him, and entailed an unmistakable curse on the offspring of the offensive connection. Its fundamental idea is that "all men are born free and equal," or the inherent equality of all, and the universal kinship and brotherhood of the human genus; and acting on this monstrous dogma, it has brought untold evils on individuals and communities. In civilized lands of modern times, where the African was a slave, it has forced upon him freedom and civil equality with the Caucasian, and to accomplish this it has blighted and ruined some of the most fertile regions of earth. In the United States it has trampled on human and Divine laws, robbed, plundered and desolated with fire and sword, wasted more treasure and blood than any war of modern times, and brought distress and mourning on almost every household from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the St. Lawrence to the Rio Grande. The war of secession was ended after the killing of more than half a million men, and disabling permanently over a million more, to say nothing of the thousands of millions of dollars expended in this most unrighteous conflict. And the result of all has been to impoverish and degrade the superior race, and convert

the happiest, best cared for and best contented laborers in the world into the most wretched, to say nothing of the tremendous evils now threatening both races, and in view of which they can see no help but in Divine mercy. It is sometimes boldly asserted that if science is agreed on any one thing it is the unity of the origin of races. This is untrue, and if true, science would be agreed on a stupendous and degrading falsehood; and it would not be the first time science has been a unit on an error.

The theory of evolution has not resulted in such great evils, but its tendencies are the same, and its practical out-working must be the same. If all races are of the same origin, or of "one blood," the only difference being in degree of development, all logical sequences must be the same. It has, in its briefer existence, proved more dangerous to the religion of the Bible than monogeny; for it has seduced to its support a large part of the scientific thought of the present day, and is, to a great degree, openly and professedly hostile to revealed religion. Its advocates, to be consistent, must co-operate with the monogenist in the foolish and ruinous efforts to bring all races to the same level, and finally commingle them in a common, debased mass, forming one great family, contrary to nature and the clear provisions of Providence.

Polygeny, or the plurality theory, is the only one consistent throughout and in harmony with the

Bible, nature, history and science, and conducive to the best human interests. It recognizes the distinctions God has made, and is entirely reconcilable with His Word. It asserts the superiority of those whom God made in His own image, and the duty of elevating them to the best state for which they are destined and capable of attaining. At the same time its advocates recognize the rights of others and their duty towards those over whom God has given them rightful dominion. That dominion should be exercised in such a way as to make the lower races useful to the world; and to make them useful would be to promote their own good and the best interests of humanity. The world must advance, but it must be on the line of race, the Caucasian maintaining his heaven-bestowed superiority, and the other races performing the duties and functions for which they were intended and adapted. The theory fits in with the facts and the facts fit the theory, which is strong presumptive evidence of its truth.

It must be borne in mind that the main inquiry is as to origin and racial capacity, and not as to what a few individuals have been able to accomplish. Exceptions prove general rules, but with ignorant fanatics they constitute the rule instead of proving it.

Correct anthropological views would put an end to beastly miscegenation, not only between Caucasians and negroes, but between Caucasians and the yellow races. Marriages frequently occur between white

people and Indians, Chinese and Japanese, and there is no condemning public opinion. Blood purity is an absolute and imperative duty, and miscegenation a damning sin against nature and nature's God.

An irresistible inference is that Adam's race is the only one with the highest attributes of manhood, and the only race created in the Divine image and born to the Christian dispensation; and hence to impose on others the same civilization and mental and moral training is injurious to them and to the general welfare, and is a plain perverting of the provisions of Providence. The object of all benevolent and missionary efforts should be directed first to our own people. It is inexpedient and sinful to divert from its proper and legitimate use the means God has given for the elevation of our own race, so many of whom are sunk in ignorance, poverty and sin, and whose souls are perishing from want of light and knowledge, while the black and yellow heathen are safe and contented in the condition God made them. If the history of the world demonstrates anything, it is that the inferior races are incapable of Christian civilization; it is to them unsuited and unnatural— an exotic that no culture can preserve.

Another important result of correct opinion concerning races would be that the immense amount of money devoted to foreign missions would be spent at home, and lives sacrificed to enthusiasm and fanaticism would be usefully employed in elevating the