the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." We can easily imagine the humidity of the atmosphere, with a mist sufficiently heavy to water a luxuriant tropical growth. During the antediluvian period there was no place on earth where irrigation was necessary.

Out of this kind of environment Noah and his sons emerged when the clouds cleared away and the bright sun shone for the first time in a clear, crisp heaven. Prior to this time the sun had been hid by the sheath which enveloped the earth, causing a subdued brightness. Now it would burst forth in all its glory in the morning, and shine throughout the day. The writer says: "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."

The strongest Biblical evidence we have that there was "Water above the firmament," is the appearance of the rainbow in the cloud after the deluge. The writer of Genesis was no doubt familiar with the natural cause of the rainbow.

Without the rays of the sun reflecting against a rain cloud there could be no rainbow. While the earth was surrounded with a shell of water above the atmosphere, a "bow in the cloud" was an impossibility, because there was no sun that shone clearly and no cloud to reflect it. When the windows of heaven were opened the water

fell and the rainbow in the cloud appeared as a covenant that "All flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." The sudden breaking away of the water crust which surrounded the entire earth between four and five miles from its surface, caused a universal inundation. This leaves no ground for the argument often put forth that all mankind was not destroyed by the flood, but that some escaped on dry land, among them a sort of half man and half monkey, which has since evolved into what is today known as the "inferior race."

All races of people in the world today have their common origin in Noah and his offspring. No matter how man may have originated during the antediluvian period, there is not a scrap of evidence in either history, science or theology, that any escaped the deluge save a few of the most intelligent, under the guiding hand of a creative and preserving power.

VARIETY AND UNION.-A variety is divine, in union there is strength. Some day, not far distant, mankind will realize this tremendous fact. We want our readers to realize this now. This book is not written to arouse race antagonism or hatred, but to alleviate existing difficulties, harmonize as far as possible the opposing forces, and bring about a mutual

understanding between a people who are today tied by many inseparable ties that must finally, triumphantly, end in harmony and permanent union.

We hope to present overwhelming facts that will prove the truth of the above statement. We wish to prove to every reader-and let this book go on record that race integrity in this great, free America is a myth; that it has been a myth in every age of human experience, and that the few advocates of it today, in both races in this country, are opposing a natural law of evolution and human growth that no amount of racial hatred or prejudice can render inoperative.

THE THREE DIVISIONS OF THE RACES.-Asia was undoubtedly the birthplace of mankind. It is believed that at a time far back of history there lived a people in Bactra that had considerable advancement in the arts of civilization. These people called themselves Aryas or Aryans, signifying to walk upright or straight. While Asia was the birthplace of man, Africa was the cradle of advanced civilization.

The Aryan branch (Japhetic), to which all white-skinned people belong, has, since early history, been the competitive and aggressive one. The fittest among them have survived the climatic and combative conditions, under which they existed for so many ages, developing a strong race of people.

The Semitic branch has contributed to mankind the three great religions of the world-the Jewish, Christian and Mohammedan-teaching the worship of one God. It has also given us the moral law. C. Osborn Ward says in his book, "The Ancient Lowly" (1893):

"The law of Moses had partly abolished slavery among the Hebrews as early as B. C. 1400, probably on account of the contempt for that degradation which the Hebrews felt, after the deliverance from their protracted slavery in Egypt. It appears that the Hebrews were the chief originators and conservators of what is now known and advocated in the name socialism; and their weird life, peculiar language, laws, struggles and inextinguishable nationality scintillates through many of the obscurities of history in a manner to command the wonder, if not the awe, of all lovers of democratic society."

The Hamitic branch, to which all the brown and black races belong, has been the great builder. and the earliest cultivator of the soil on an extensive scale. It has been remarkable for its massive architecture, which yet covers the tracks of these people, after thousands of years, the marvel of the modern world. The building proclivity of these people has only been feebly imitated by succeeding ages. When modern "skyscrapers" have crumbled to dust the great