P718:1, 64:0.1 This is the story of the evolutionary races of
Andon from the days of Andon and Eva, almost one million years ago, to the end
of the ice age.
P718:2, 64:0.2 The human race is almost one million years old.
The latter half of the history of mankind begins at the appearance of the six
colored races and roughly corresponds to the period commonly regarded as the Old
Stone Age.
P718:3, 64:1.1 Primitive man made his evolutionary appearance
on earth a little less than one million years ago, and he had a vigorous
experience. He instinctively sought to escape the danger of mingling with the
inferior simian tribes. But he could not migrate eastward because of the arid
Tibetan land elevations, 30,000 feet above sea level; neither could he go south
nor west because of the expanded Mediterranean Sea, which then extended eastward
to the Indian Ocean; and as he went north, he encountered the advancing ice. But
even when the ice blocked further migration, and though the dispersing tribes
became increasingly hostile, the more intelligent groups never entertained the
idea of going southward to live among their hairy tree-dwelling cousins of
inferior intellect.
P718:6, 64:1.4 These events occurred during the times of the
third glacier, the first according to the reckoning of geologists. The first two
glaciers were not extensive in northern Europe.
P718:7, 64:1.5 During most of the ice age England was connected
by land with France, while later on Africa was joined to Europe by the Sicilian
land bridge. At the time of the Andonic migrations there was a continuous land
path from England in the west on through Europe and Asia to Java in the east;
but Australia was again isolated, which further accentuated the development of
its own peculiar fauna.
P719:1, 64:1.6 950,000 years ago the descendants of
Andon and Eva had migrated far to the east and to the west. To the west they
passed over Europe to France and England. In later times they penetrated
eastward as far as Java, where their bones were so recently found -- the
so-called Java man -- and then journeyed on to Tasmania.
P719:2, 64:1.7 The groups going west became less contaminated
with the backward stocks of mutual ancestral origin than those going east, who
mingled so freely with their retarded animal cousins. These unprogressive
individuals drifted southward and presently mated with the inferior tribes.
Later on, increasing numbers of their mongrel descendants returned to the north
to mate with the rapidly expanding Andonic peoples, and such unfortunate unions
unfailingly deteriorated the superior stock. Fewer and fewer of the primitive
settlements maintained the worship of the Breath Giver. This early dawn
civilization was threatened with extinction.
P719:3, 64:1.8 And thus it has ever been on Earth.
Civilizations of great promise have successively deteriorated and have finally
been extinguished by the folly of allowing the superior freely to procreate with
the inferior.
P719:4, 64:2.1 900,000 years ago the arts of Andon and
Eva and the culture of Onagar were vanishing from the face of the earth;
culture, religion, and even flintworking were at their lowest ebb.
P719:8, 64:2.5 The Foxhall peoples were farthest west and
succeeded in retaining much of the Andonic culture; they also preserved their
knowledge of flintworking, which they transmitted to their descendants, the
ancient ancestors of the Eskimos.
P720:2, 64:3.1 Besides the Foxhall peoples in the west, another
struggling center of culture persisted in the east. This group was located in
the foothills of the northwestern Indian highlands among the tribes of Badonan,
a great great grandson of Andon. These people were the only descendants of Andon
who never practiced human sacrifice.
P720:3, 64:3.2 These highland Badonites occupied an extensive
plateau surrounded by forests, traversed by streams, and abounding in game. Like
some of their cousins in Tibet, they lived in crude stone huts, hillside
grottoes, and semi underground passages.
P720:5, 64:3.4 To the east of the Badonan peoples, in the
Siwalik Hills of northern India, may be found fossils that approach nearer to
transition types between man and the various prehuman groups than any others on
earth.
P720:6, 64:3.5 850,000 years ago the superior Badonan tribes began a warfare of extermination directed against their inferior and animalistic neighbors. In less than one thousand years most of the borderland animal groups of these regions had been either destroyed or driven back to the southern forests. This campaign for the extermination of inferiors brought about a slight improvement in the hill tribes of that age. And the mixed descendants of this improved Badonites stock appeared on the stage of action as an apparently new people -- the Neanderthal race.
P720:7, 64:4.1 The Neanderthalers were excellent fighters, and they traveled extensively. They gradually spread from the highland centers in northwest India to France on the west, China on the east, and even down into northern Africa. They dominated the world for almost half a million years until the times of the migration of the evolutionary races of color.
P720:8, 64:4.2 800,000 years ago game was abundant; many
species of deer, as well as elephants and hippopotamuses, roamed over Europe.
Cattle were plentiful; horses and wolves were everywhere. The Neanderthalers
were great hunters, and the tribes in France were the first to adopt the
practice of giving the most successful hunters the choice of women for wives.
P721:1, 64:4.3 The reindeer was highly useful to these
Neanderthal peoples, serving as food, clothing, and for tools, since they made
various uses of the horns and bones. They had little culture, but they greatly
improved the work in flint until it almost reached the levels of the days of
Andon. Large flints attached to wooden handles came back into use and served as
axes and picks.
P721:2, 64:4.4 750,000 years ago the fourth ice sheet
was well on its way south. With their improved implements the Neanderthalers
made holes in the ice covering the northern rivers and thus were able to spear
the fish that came up to these vents. Ever these tribes retreated before the
advancing ice, which at this time made its most extensive invasion of Europe.
P721:3, 64:4.5 In these times the Siberian glacier was making
its southernmost march, compelling early man to move southward, back toward the
lands of his origin. But the human species had so differentiated that the danger
of further mingling with its non-progressive simian relatives was greatly
lessened.
P721:4, 64:4.6 700,000 years ago the fourth glacier, the
greatest of all in Europe, was in recession; men and animals were returning
north. The climate was cool and moist, and primitive man again thrived in Europe
and western Asia. Gradually the forests spread north over land that had been so
recently covered by the glacier.
P721:5, 64:4.7 Mammalian life had been little changed by the
great glacier. These animals persisted in that narrow belt of land lying between
the ice and the Alps and, upon the retreat of the glacier, again rapidly spread
out over all Europe. There arrived from Africa, over the Sicilian land bridge,
straight-tusked elephants, broad- nosed rhinoceroses, hyenas, and African lions,
and these new animals virtually exterminated the saber-toothed tigers and the
hippopotamuses.
P721:6, 64:4.8 650,000 years ago witnessed the continuation of the mild climate. By the middle of the interglacial period it had become so warm that the Alps were almost denuded of ice and snow.
P721:7, 64:4.9 600,000 years ago the ice had reached its then northernmost point of retreat and, after a pause of a few thousand years, started south again on its fifth excursion. But there was little modification of climate for fifty thousand years. Man and the animals of Europe were little changed. The slight aridity of the former period lessened, and the alpine glaciers descended far down the river valleys.
P721:8, 64:4.10 550,000 years ago the advancing glacier
again pushed man and the animals south. But this time man had plenty of room in
the wide belt of land stretching northeast into Asia and lying between the ice
sheet and the then greatly expanded Black Sea extension of the Mediterranean.
P721:9, 64:4.11 These times of the fourth and fifth glaciers
witnessed the further spread of the crude culture of the Neanderthal races. But
there was so little progress that it truly appeared as though the attempt to
produce a new and modified type of intelligent life on Urantia was about to
fail. For almost a quarter of a million years these primitive peoples drifted
on, hunting and fighting, by spells improving in certain directions, but, on the
whole, steadily retrogressing as compared with their superior Andonic ancestors.
P721:10, 64:4.12 During these spiritually dark ages the culture
of superstitious mankind reached its lowest levels. The Neanderthalers really
had no religion beyond a shameful superstition. They were deathly afraid of
clouds, more especially of mists and fogs. A primitive religion of the fear of
natural forces gradually developed, while animal worship declined as improvement
in tools, with abundance of game, enabled these people to live with lessened
anxiety about food; the sex rewards of the chase tended greatly to improve
hunting skill. This new religion of fear led to attempts to placate the
invisible forces behind these natural elements and culminated, later on, in the
sacrificing of humans to appease these invisible and unknown physical forces.
And the more backward peoples of Earth right on down to the twentieth century
have perpetuated this terrible practice of human sacrifice.
P722:1, 64:4.13 These early Neanderthalers could hardly be
called sun worshipers. They rather lived in fear of the dark; they had a mortal
dread of nightfall. As long as the moon shone a little, they managed to get
along, but in the dark of the moon they grew panicky and began the sacrifice of
their best specimens of manhood and womanhood in an effort to induce the moon
again to shine. The sun, they early learned, would regularly return, but the
moon they conjectured only returned because they sacrificed their fellow
tribesmen. As the race advanced, the object and purpose of sacrifice
progressively changed, but the offering of human sacrifice as a part of
religious ceremonial long persisted.
P722:2, 64:5.1 500,000 years ago the Badonan tribes of
the northwestern highlands of India became involved in another great racial
struggle. For more than one hundred years this relentless warfare raged, and
when the long fight was finished, only about one hundred families were left. But
these survivors were the most intelligent and desirable of all the then living
descendants of Andon and Eva.
P722:3, 64:5.2 And now, among these highland Badonites there
was a new and strange occurrence. A man and woman living in the northeastern
part of the then inhabited highland region began suddenly to produce a
family of unusually intelligent children. This was the Sangik family, the
ancestors of all of the six colored races of Earth.
P722:4, 64:5.3 These Sangik children, nineteen in number, were
not only intelligent above their fellows, but their skins manifested a unique
tendency to turn various colors upon exposure to sunlight. Among these nineteen
children were five red, two orange, four yellow, two green, four blue, and two
indigo. These colors became more pronounced as the children grew older, and when
these youths later mated with their fellow tribesmen, all of their offspring
tended toward the skin color of the Sangik parent.
P722:6, 64:6.1 On an average evolutionary planet the six
evolutionary races of color appear one by one; the red man is the first to
evolve, and for ages he roams the world before the succeeding colored races make
their appearance. The simultaneous emergence of all six races on Earth, and
in one family, was most unusual.
P723:1, 64:6.2 The appearance of the earlier Andonites on Earth
was also something new. On no other world in the local system has such a race of
will creatures evolved in advance of the evolutionary races of color.
P723:2, 64:6.3 1. The red man. These peoples were
remarkable specimens of the human race, in many ways superior to Andon and Eva.
They were a most intelligent group and were the first of the Sangik children to
develop a tribal civilization and government. They were always monogamous; even
their mixed descendants seldom practiced plural mating.
P723:3, 64:6.4 In later times they had serious and prolonged
trouble with their yellow brethren in Asia. They were aided by their early
invention of the bow and arrow, but they had unfortunately inherited much of the
tendency of their ancestors to fight among themselves, and this so weakened them
that the yellow tribes were able to drive them off the Asiatic continent.
P723:4, 64:6.5 About eighty-five thousand years ago the
comparatively pure remnants of the red race went en masse across to North
America, and shortly thereafter the Bering land isthmus sank, thus isolating
them. No red man ever returned to Asia. But throughout Siberia, China, central
Asia, India, and Europe they left behind much of their stock blended with the
other colored races.
P723:5, 64:6.6 When the red man crossed over into America, he
brought along much of the teachings and traditions of his early origin. In a
short time after reaching the Americas there occurred a great decline in their
intellectual and spiritual culture. Very soon these people again fell to
fighting so fiercely among themselves that it appeared that these tribal wars
would result in the speedy extinction of this remnant of the comparatively pure
red race.
P723:6, 64:6.7 Because of this great retrogression the red men
seemed doomed when, about sixty-five thousand years ago, Onamonalonton appeared
as their leader and spiritual deliverer. He brought temporary peace among the
American red men and revived their worship of the "Great Spirit."
Onamonalonton lived to be ninety-six years of age and maintained his
headquarters among the great redwood trees of California. Many of his later
descendants have come down to modern times among the Blackfoot Indians.
P723:7, 64:6.8 As time passed, the teachings of Onamonalonton
became hazy traditions. Internecine wars were resumed, and never after the days
of this great teacher did another leader succeed in bringing universal peace
among them. Increasingly the more intelligent strains perished in these tribal
struggles; otherwise these able and intelligent red men would have built a great
civilization upon the North American continent.
P723:8, 64:6.9 After crossing over to America from China, the
northern red man never again came in contact with other world influences (except
the Eskimo) until he was later discovered by the white man. It was most
unfortunate that the red man almost completely missed his opportunity of being
upstepped by the admixture of the later stock. As it was, the red man could not
rule the white man, and he would not willingly serve him. In such a
circumstance, if the two races do not blend, one or the other is doomed.
P723:9, 64:6.10 2. The orange man. The outstanding characteristic of this race was their peculiar urge to build, to build anything and everything, even to the piling up of vast mounds of stone just to see which tribe could build the largest mound.
P724:1, 64:6.11 The orange race was the first to follow the
coast line southward toward Africa as the Mediterranean Sea withdrew to the
west. But they never secured a favorable footing in Africa and were wiped out of
existence by the later arriving green race.
P724:2, 64:6.12 Before the end came, this people lost much
cultural and spiritual ground. But there was a great revival of higher living as
a result of the wise leadership of Porshunta, the mastermind of this unfortunate
race.
P724:3, 64:6.13 The last great struggle between the orange and
the green men occurred in the region of the lower Nile valley in Egypt. This
long-drawn-out battle was waged for almost one hundred years, and at its close
very few of the orange race were left alive. The shattered remnants of these
people were absorbed by the green and by the later arriving indigo men. But as a
race the orange man ceased to exist about one hundred thousand years ago.
P724:4, 64:6.14 3. The yellow man. The primitive yellow
tribes were the first to abandon the chase, establish settled communities, and
develop a home life based on agriculture. Intellectually they were somewhat
inferior to the red man, but socially and collectively they proved themselves
superior to all of the Sangik peoples in the matter of fostering racial
civilization. Because they developed a fraternal spirit, the various tribes
learning to live together in relative peace, they were able to drive the red
race before them as they gradually expanded into Asia.
P724:5, 64:6.15 There occurred one brilliant age among this
people when Singlangton, about one hundred thousand years ago, assumed the
leadership of these tribes and proclaimed the worship of the "One
Truth."
P724:6, 64:6.16 The survival of comparatively large numbers of
the yellow race is due to their intertribal peacefulness. From the days of
Singlangton to the times of modern China, the yellow race has been numbered
among the more peaceful of the nations of Earth.
P724:7, 64:6.17 4. The green man. The green race was one
of the less able groups of primitive men, and they were greatly weakened by
extensive migrations in different directions. Before their dispersion these
tribes experienced a great revival of culture under the leadership of Fantad,
some three hundred and fifty thousand years ago.
P724:8, 64:6.18 The green race split into three major
divisions: The northern tribes were subdued, enslaved, and absorbed by the
yellow and blue races. The eastern group was amalgamated with the Indian peoples
of those days, and remnants still persist among them. The southern nation
entered Africa, where they destroyed their almost equally inferior orange
cousins.
P724:9, 64:6.19 In many ways both groups were evenly matched in
this struggle since each carried strains of the great order. These strains of
the green man were mostly confined to this southern or Egyptian nation.
P725:1, 64:6.20 The remnants of the victorious green men were
subsequently absorbed by the indigo race, the last of the colored peoples to
develop and emigrate from the original Sangik center of race dispersion.
P725:2, 64:6.21 5. The blue man. The blue men were a great people. They early invented the spear and subsequently worked out the rudiments of many of the arts of modern civilization. The blue man had the brainpower of the red man associated with the soul and sentiment of the yellow man.
P725:3, 64:6.22 The early blue men, like other primitive races,
never fully recovered from the turmoil produced by their leader Caligastia, nor
did they ever completely overcome their tendency to fight among themselves.
P725:4, 64:6.23 About five hundred years after Caligastia’s
downfall a widespread revival of learning and religion of a primitive sort --
but none the less real and beneficial -- occurred. Orlandof became a great
teacher among the blue race and led many of the tribes back to the worship of
the true God under the name of the "Supreme Chief." This was the
greatest advance of the blue man until those later times when this race was so
greatly upstepped by the admixture of other stock.
P725:5, 64:6.24 The European researches and explorations of the
Old Stone Age have largely to do with unearthing the tools, bones, and art craft
of these ancient blue men, for they persisted in Europe until recent times. The
so-called white races of Earth are the descendants of these blue men as
they were first modified by slight mixture with yellow and red, and as they were
later greatly upstepped by assimilating the greater portion of the violet race.
P725:6, 64:6.25 6. The indigo race. As the red men were
the most advanced of all the Sangik peoples, so the black men were the least
progressive. They were the last to migrate from their highland homes. They
journeyed to Africa, taking possession of the continent, and have ever since
remained there except when they wandered out of the land or were
forcibly taken away, from age to age, as slaves.
P725:7, 64:6.26 Alone in Africa, the indigo race made little
advancement until the days of Orvonon, when they experienced a great spiritual
awakening. While they later almost entirely forgot the "God of Gods"
proclaimed by Orvonon, they did not entirely lose the desire to worship the
Unknown; at least they maintained a form of worship up to a few thousand years
ago.
P725:8, 64:6.27 Notwithstanding their backwardness, these
indigo peoples have exactly the same standing before the celestial powers as any
other earthly race.
P726:1, 64:6.28 These were ages of intense struggles between
the various races, but the more enlightened and more recently taught groups
lived together in comparative harmony.
P726:2, 64:6.29 From time to time all of these different peoples experienced cultural and spiritual revivals. Mention is made only of those outstanding leaders and teachers who markedly influenced and inspired a whole race. With the passing of time, many other teachers arose in different regions; and in the aggregate they contributed much to the sum total of those saving influences that prevented the total collapse of cultural civilization.
P726:3, 64:6.30 There are many good and sufficient reasons for the plan of evolving either three or six colored races on the worlds of space. Though Earth mortals may not be in a position fully to appreciate all of these reasons, we would call attention to the following:
P726:4, 64:6.31 1. Variety is indispensable to opportunity for the wide functioning of natural selection, differential survival of superior strains.
P726:5, 64:6.32 2. Stronger and better races are to be had from the interbreeding of diverse peoples when these different races are carriers of superior inheritance factors.
P726:6, 64:6.33 3. Competition is healthfully stimulated by diversification of races.
P726:7, 64:6.34 4. Differences in status of the races and of groups within each race are essential to the development of human tolerance and altruism.
P726:8, 64:6.35 5. Homogeneity of the human race is not desirable until the peoples of an evolving world attain comparatively high levels of spiritual development.
P726:9, 64:7.1 When the descendants of the Sangik family began
to multiply, and as they sought opportunity for expansion into adjacent
territory, the fifth glacier, the third of geologic count, was well advanced on
its southern drift over Europe and Asia. These early races of color were
extraordinarily tested by the rigors and hardships of the glacial age of their
origin. This glacier was so extensive in Asia that for thousands of years
migration to eastern Asia was cut off. And not until the later retreat of the
Mediterranean Sea, consequent upon the elevation of Arabia, was it possible for
them to reach Africa.
P726:10, 64:7.2 Thus it was that for almost one hundred thousand
years these Sangik peoples spread out around the foothills and mingled together
more or less, notwithstanding the peculiar but natural antipathy which early
manifested itself between the different races.
P726:11, 64:7.3 India became the home of the most cosmopolitan
population ever to be found on the face of the earth. But it was unfortunate
that this mixture came to contain so much of the green, orange, and indigo
races. These secondary Sangik peoples found existence more easy and agreeable in
the southlands, and many of them subsequently migrated to Africa. The primary
Sangik peoples, the superior races, avoided the tropics, the red man going
northeast to Asia, closely followed by the yellow man, while the blue race moved
northwest into Europe.
P727:1, 64:7.4 The red men early began to migrate to the
northeast, on the heels of the retreating ice, passing around the highlands of
India and occupying all of northeastern Asia. The yellow tribes, who
subsequently drove them out of Asia into North America, closely followed them.
P727:2, 64:7.5 When the relatively pure-line remnants of the
red race forsook Asia, there were eleven tribes, and they numbered a little over
seven thousand men, women, and children. These tribes were accompanied by three
small groups of mixed ancestry, the largest of these being a combination of the
orange and blue races. These three groups never fully fraternized with the red
man and early journeyed southward to Mexico and Central America, where they were
later joined by a small group of mixed yellows and reds. These peoples all
intermarried and founded a new and amalgamated race, one that was much less
warlike than the pure-line red men. Within five thousand years this amalgamated
race broke up into three groups, establishing the civilizations respectively of
Mexico, Central America, and South America.
P727:3, 64:7.6 To a certain extent the early red and yellow men
mingled in Asia, and the offspring of this union journeyed on to the east and
along the southern seacoast and, eventually, were driven by the rapidly
increasing yellow race onto the peninsulas and near-by islands of the sea. They
are the present-day brown men.
P727:4, 64:7.7 The yellow race has continued to occupy the
central regions of eastern Asia. Of all the six colored races they have survived
in greatest numbers. While the yellow men now and then engaged in racial war,
they did not carry on such incessant and relentless wars of extermination as
were waged by the red, green, and orange men. These three races virtually
destroyed themselves before they were finally all but annihilated by their
enemies of other races.
P727:5, 64:7.8 Since the fifth glacier did not extend so far
south in Europe, the way was partially open for these Sangik peoples to migrate
to the northwest; and upon the retreat of the ice the blue men, together with a
few other small racial groups, migrated westward along the old trails of the
Andon tribes. They invaded Europe in successive waves, occupying most of the
continent.
P727:6, 64:7.9 In Europe they soon encountered the Neanderthal
descendants of their early and common ancestor, Andon. These older European
Neanderthalers had been driven south and east by the glacier and thus were in
position quickly to encounter and absorb their invading cousins of the Sangik
tribes.
P727:7, 64:7.10 In general and to start with, the Sangik tribes
were more intelligent than, and in most ways far superior to, the deteriorated
descendants of the early Andonic plainsmen; and the mingling of these Sangik
tribes with the Neanderthal peoples led to the immediate improvement of the
older race. It was this infusion of Sangik blood, more especially that of the
blue man, which produced that marked improvement in the Neanderthal peoples
exhibited by the successive waves of increasingly intelligent tribes that swept
over Europe from the east.
P727:8, 64:7.11 During the following interglacial period this
new Neanderthal race extended from England to India. The remnant of the blue
race left in the old Persian peninsula later amalgamated with certain others,
primarily the yellow; and the resultant blend, subsequently somewhat upstepped
by the violet race, has persisted as the swarthy nomadic tribes of modern Arabs.
P728:2, 64:7.13 The violet races sought the northern or
temperate climes, while the orange, green, and indigo races successively
gravitated to Africa over the newly elevated land bridge which separated the
westward retreating Mediterranean from the Indian Ocean.
P728:3, 64:7.14 The last of the Sangik peoples to migrate from
their center of race origin was the indigo man. About the time the green man was
killing off the orange race in Egypt and greatly weakening himself in so doing,
the great black exodus started south through Palestine along the coast; and
later, when these physically strong indigo peoples overran Egypt, they wiped the
green man out of existence by sheer force of numbers. These indigo races
absorbed the remnants of the orange man and much of the stock of the green man,
and certain of the indigo tribes were considerably improved by this racial
amalgamation.
P728:4, 64:7.15 And so it appears that Egypt was first
dominated by the orange man, then by the green, followed by the indigo (black)
man, and still later by a mongrel race of indigo, blue, and modified green men.
The blue men of Europe and the mixed races of Arabia had driven the indigo race
out of Egypt and far south on the African continent.
P728:5, 64:7.16 As the Sangik migrations draw to a close, the
green and orange races are gone, the red man holds North America, the yellow man
eastern Asia, the blue man Europe, and the indigo race has gravitated to Africa.
India harbors a blend of the secondary Sangik races, and the brown man, a blend
of the red and yellow, holds the islands off the Asiatic coast. An amalgamated
race occupies the highlands of South America. The purer Andonites live in the
extreme northern regions of Europe and in Iceland, Greenland, and northeastern
North America.
P728:6, 64:7.17 During the periods of farthest glacial advance
the westernmost of the Andon tribes came very near being driven into the sea.
They lived for years on a narrow southern strip of the present island of
England. And it was the tradition of these repeated glacial advances that drove
them to take to the sea when the sixth and last glacier finally appeared. They
were the first marine adventurers. They built boats and started in search of new
lands that they hoped might be free from the terrifying ice invasions. And some
of them reached Iceland, others Greenland, but the vast majority perished from
hunger and thirst on the open sea.
P728:7, 64:7.18 A little more than eighty thousand years ago,
shortly after the red man entered northwestern North America, the freezing over
of the north seas and the advance of local ice fields on Greenland drove these
Eskimo descendants of the aborigines to seek a better land, a new home; and they
were successful, safely crossing the narrow straits which then separated
Greenland from the northeastern land masses of North America. They reached the
continent about twenty-two hundred years after the red man arrived in Alaska.
Subsequently some of the mixed stock of the blue man journeyed westward and
amalgamated with the later-day Eskimos, and this union was slightly beneficial
to the Eskimo tribes.
P728:8, 64:7.19 About five thousand years ago a chance meeting
occurred between an Indian tribe and a lone Eskimo group on the southeastern
shores of Hudson Bay. These two tribes found it difficult to communicate with
each other, but very soon they intermarried with the result that the more
numerous red men eventually absorbed these Eskimos. And this represents the only
contact of the North American red man with any other human stock down to about
one thousand years ago, when the white man first chanced to land on the Atlantic
coast.
P729:1, 64:7.20 The struggles of these early ages were characterized by courage, bravery, and even heroism. It is regrettable that so many of those sterling and rugged traits of our early ancestors have been lost to the later-day races. While we appreciate the value of many of the refinements of advancing civilization, we miss the magnificent persistency and superb devotion of our early ancestors, which oftentimes bordered on grandeur and sublimity.