"In population the Caucasian race leads the world,
with about 800,000,000 souls. Nearly 300,000,000 of these, however, are of the
darker branches of the race and live in Asia, 220,000,000 of them being Aryans
of India." (Senate Document No. 662, 61st Congress, 3rd Session, Reports
of the Immigration Commission, 1911, under title of Dictionary of Races or
Peoples.)
We have seen that mankind is divided into three great primary
groups or races: black (Negro), yellow (Mongolian), and white (Caucasian). We
have also seen that the Caucasian or white race is essentially migratory, and
that its restless energy, combined with its superior cultural ability had, at
an early period, led it from its primeval home into every continent. These
age-long movements of the Caucasian had in pre-historic times given rise to
extensive blood admixture with both black and yellow races, so much so that at
the dawn of history there were numerous mixbreed Caucasic peoples fully
constituted as "races," some by admixture with the Negro, others by
admixture with the Mongolian.
Our immigration officials, in the main, classify the peoples coming to our
shores according to the languages they speak. For instance, the Hebrew from
Russia is classified as Slavic. On the basis of language, the America Negro,
immigrating into another country, would be classified as Caucasian because he
speaks a Caucasic language. Language, then, is not a satisfactory test of race.
Aryan language, in Asia, has outlived the purity of the Aryan race. It is by
the language test only that it may be said 300,0000,000 of our race live in
Asia, 220,000,000 being Aryans of India.
The objection to language as a test of race lies in the fact that races mix,
but that languages do not. When two peoples speaking different tongues come
into contact the final outcome is the blood admixture of the groups and the
survival of one of the languages. We see this principle in progress in Ireland
and Wales, where Mediterraneans and Nordics are amalgamating, but where English
is supplanting the Keltic speech acquired by the Mediterraneans from earlier
Nordic conquerors. In central and northern Latin America, the Spanish and
Portuguese languages have survived, though the pure whites are, with each
generation, becoming submerged in the racial mixtures.
We are, then, prepared to see why it is that a classification of Aryan
peoples on the basis of language does not of necessity agree with their
classification on the basis of race stock.
This must is certain: the "Aryan," whatever his language may be,
who is not of fair complexion is not Aryan. Nor does the Aryan become less fair
when dwelling in hot countries. The Hima of Uganda and the Fula of Nigeria,
Negroid Caucasians dwelling in equatorial Africa, are of much lighter
complexion than the surrounding pure Negroes. After four centuries, the pure
whites of Central America are as white as their ancestors in Europe. The
English in Jamaica are not darker than the English in England. Those who have
been exposed to a hotter sun and have become tanned will breed as true to the
original type as their kinsmen in North Europe. All ethnologists know that we
find dark races at the poles and light skinned races at the equator. Climate,
in conjunction with other natural agencies working over an immense period of
time may, for all we know, serve permanently to darken a breed, but there has
been no perceptible change in race complexions during the period of known
history. So let us not permit mixbreeds to be, in forceful vernacular,
"wished on us" under the guise of "our sun-burnt cousins,"
by necrophile and uncritical authors. (The writer is not alluding to the very
capable authors of Senate Document No. 662, 61st Congress, 3rd Session.
Throughout this valuable work there is an effort to define races and peoples in
terms of blood lineage as well as classify them according to languages.)
Our relatedness to the Aryan conquerors of India is certain. Such kinship is
honorable and in it we gain in added confidence that Aryan breeds will develop
great cultures wherever it is possible for them to express their inherent
qualities. But surely those who assert that the present peoples of India are
our blood relatives, and should be received as such, ought to be able to
explain why the overwhelming mass of Indians are colored, why their complexion
exhibits all shades of color, from the jet black to the blue-eyed blond! is
that climate has selected the mass for racial slaughter and an infinitesimal
few for racial preservation? We know that this is not true. Not climate, but
the blood of colored races, is responsible for our "sun-burnt
cousins." Not climate, but caste is responsible for the little
purity that exists.
The briefest survey of the Aryan conquest of India will suffice to show that
the white Aryan came into contact with a decayed civilization which was in its
last stages as a result of the previous Caucasian conquerors of India having
interbred with the aborigines. The breed which produced the earlier culture had
become submerged in the black mass about them, and the new-coming Aryan found
that the "melting pot" had prepared India for an easy conquest. The
Aryans, by reason of race and culture, came as aristocrats. Their numbers were
but small when compared with the colored multitudes about them. They came
slowly from their homeland in the northwest where, in spite of later mixtures
with blacks and yellows, we yet find Afghans and Persians who are fundamentally
Aryan.
While all the darker strains of India may not be traced to the influence of
the blood of the Asiatic branch of the Negro race, which at an early time was
widely distributed on the Asiatic mainland, and which now has many
representatives in the islands south of the continent, yet blood of the Negro
is evident in certain of the races of India.
Speaking of the race types of India, Madison Grant says, "The Aryanized
Afghan and Hinku of northern India speak languages derived from Old Sanskrit
and are closely related to the Mediterranean race. Aside from common
dolichocephaly, these peoples are entirely distinct from the Dravidians of
south India, whose speech is agglutinative and who show strong evidence of
profound mixture with the ancient Negrito substratum of southern Asia.
Everywhere throughout the Asiatic portion of its range the Mediterranean race
overlies an even more ancient Negroid race. These Negroids still have
representatives among the pre-Dravidians of India, the Veddah of Ceylon, the Sakai
of the Malay Peninsula and the natives of the Andaman Islands." (The
Passing of the Great Race, p. 148.)
The all but complete disappearance of the blood of the white civilizers of
India is well expressed by the same authority, who says: "The Hindu today
speaks a very ancient form of the Aryan language, but there remains not one
recognizable trace of the white conquerors who poured in through the passage of
the Northwest. The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as
his English ruler is entirely without basis in fact, and the little swarthy
native lives among the monuments of a departed grandeur, professing the
religion and speaking the tongue of his long-forgotten Nordic conquerors,
without the slightest claim to blood kinship. The dim and uncertain traces of
Nordic blood in northern India only serve to emphasize the utter swamping of
the white man in the burning South." (Ibid., p. 70)
Not only were the eastern Aryans, before their amalgamation with other
races, true representatives of the race type that has dominated civilization,
but also it is from this branch of the race that we have received important
arts and sciences, and to their ancient literature we are indebted for much
that we know concerning the religious beliefs of our kindred, their social
organization, their laws and race ideals.
The ancient literature of the Aryan is embodied in the Rig-Veda and the
Epics. The Vedic times cover approximately the six hundred years intervening
between 2000 B.C. and 1400 B.C. These writings afford us a fair conception of
Aryan society and reveal a vigorous, white, conquering people, well organized,
respecting their women, already in possession of ancient laws, glorying in
agriculture, passionately religious, imposing their faith and culture upon the
surrounding colored populations to whom they refer in terms of contempt.
Themselves they designate as a people of "fair complexion" and term
those whom they have subdued "colored," and ridicule them, calling
them monkeys; just as the Aryans four thousand years later have gone into
Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, have boasted of their white complexion
and vigorous mentality, and have accredited the dark races of these lands with
close relatedness to chimpanzee and gorilla.
Let us look backward over a span of forty centuries and get a glimpse of
these white invaders of northern India. Their records tell us that they were of
fair complexion, with straight, well-bridged noses. The latter feature, as well
as the complexion, marked them as a separate people and so impressed social
ideals that, even to the present day, a man's social position varies in inverse
ratio to the width of his nose: "that is to say, the nasal index, as it is
called, is a safe guide to the amount of Aryan, as distinguished from the
aboriginal blood in his veins." (India Through the Ages, F. A.
Steele, p.6) The tall, fair, high-nosed invader came as a conqueror, looked
upon the mongrel and black multitudes as inferiors, and treated them as such.
Of this treatment, however, we shall learn later.
Emerging from the hill country of Afghanistan and the slopes of the Hindu
Kush, the Aryans (Nordics) took possession of that extremely desirable portion
of India known as the Punjab. A glance at the map will show that the Punjab is
a well-watered northern province and that it comprises but a small proportion
of the present Indian Empire. From the Punjab, these blond Caucasians extended
their sway, imposing themselves by force and the influence of superior culture
upon the mixbreeds, who infested the country in countless numbers then, as they
do now. We may better understand the ease with which this was done by the first
Aryan invaders of India, by reflecting upon the ease with which foreign control
has been imposed by the last Aryan invaders of India, the English. The task of
the first Aryan invaders should have been even less difficult; for their
invasion was by land from an adjoining territory, while the English have
dominated India from afar, their line of communications consisting of a long
and tortuous sea route. Both the first and last invasions were wrought by the
hard-drinking, hard-fighting, military caste of Aryans; and both invasions
maintained by prestige of race and culture rather than by constant appeal to
arms.
When occupying the Punjab, the Aryans did not expel the mixbreed
white-yellow-black populations whom they conquered (as yet the Aryans were not
in contact with the blacks in the south of India). Throughout the history of
their conquests, the Aryans have not expelled a subjugated people whom they
could profitably enslave. Modern Aryans in North America did expel the red man,
but they imported the black. The former would not work, the latter could be
made to work. If we, from the vantage point of centuries, pass critical judgment
upon the color policies of the Indian Aryans, we may ask ourselves in what did
they fail and to what mistake is their final undoing attributable? We know that
their failure must be attributed to their reliance upon caste, rather than
expulsion, in dealing with their colored subjects. They sought to keep
themselves white by imposing laws against race admixture and supporting such
laws by the ideal of race purity and by religion. But long continued race
contact, throughout human history, is written large in one word - amalgamation.
The story of civilization is, in the main, the story of the Aryan race and
its culture. The history of the Aryan peoples show that where they have
seemingly been most cruel in their dealing with other races, their civilization
has been most permanent. Of the Nordic tribes who, between the fourth and sixth
centuries of our era, overran South Europe, those that became isolated and
finally lost by amalgamation with their subjects, rapidly declined as cultural
factors; while those who replaced conquered peoples have led in civilization.
Franks, Lombards and Saxons retained race and cultural capacity. The Aryan
conquerors of South America, to a great extent, have amalgamated with colored
subjects. The settlers of North America segregated the colored race they found
in possession of the land and have established a form of caste to prevent blood
admixture with the colored race which they inducted into their midst.
Caste will not perpetuate the civilization of the whites who dwell with colored
races, but it will prolong it. The Aryans of India relied upon caste. They knew
that they owed their capacity in the civilized arts to their breed, and to
their breed they owed their prestige among colored races. How to preserve breed
and, at the same time, utilize inferior peoples to do their labor was the
problem confronting the Aryan. The answer to the problem was, "caste,
enforced by law and religion."
The priests were the scientists and philosophers, and they devised a system
of social control designed to meet the requirements of the native problem. This
extraordinary scheme has been classed among the greatest expressions of human
ingenuity. Caste, as originally instituted, divided the population into four
divisions; warriors, priests, agriculturalists and merchants, and laborers. The
first was composed of those of the purest Aryan descent, while the last was
made up mainly of the subjugated mixbreeds with whom the Aryan was in immediate
contact. The heart of caste was not vocation, as at present, but endogamy
(marriage within the caste). There were large groups of the subjugated
population whom the Aryan did not honor with caste. These were referred to
collectively as outcasts, recognized as barely human.
We see, then, a white people dwelling among a colored, who greatly outnumber
them, and attempting to remain white by the institution of laws forbidding
interracial marriage. "Our first glimpse of India discloses two races
struggling for the soil, the Dravidians, a dark skinned race of aborigines, and
the Aryans, a fair-skinned people. Descending from the northwest passages (Encyclopedia
Britannica, 11th ed., article "India.") ." Keane, in his Ethnology,
says: "As a rule, the Anglo-Saxon and British Aryan, who are by far the
most numerous and widespread out of Europe, do not amalgamate with the
aborigines." (Ethnology, p. 410) This author is comparing the Saxon
Aryan with Spanish, French and Portuguese "Aryans," who readily mix
with colored races. But Saxon resistance to intermixture is relative only. The
Saxon mixes with other races in every land where there is race contact. This
mixing is slow, but the end will be the same. The same authority, on another
page, himself affirms that the end of all race contact is amalgamation of
races.
The Anglo-Saxon of the United States, like his early kinsmen in India, will
retain comparative purity for many generations. Like his ancient relatives, he
invokes law to prevent interbreeding of white and black. But the present day
white man is not as well fortified against miscegenation as the ancient white
man of India, who supplemented legal prohibition of marriage with non-whites by
his religious teaching, and by caste, which was perfect in ideal and
enforceable by law. In the United States, legal prohibition of interracial
marriages has not been written in the statutes of all the states; and, too, we
have a religion, which, instead of opposing interbreeding with the colored
races within our midst, is interpreted by a large number of whites in such a
manner as to minimize or abolish the color line.
But the peril to the color line in India, as in the United States, was not
legal interbreeding of races. There, as here it was the illegitimate mixbreed
who threatened the purity of the white race.
There has ever been a deplorable freedom between the white and non-white
races which has resulted in an increasing number of mixbreeds. In India, caste
prevented interracial marriage, but was incapable of preventing illegitimate
unions. The Aryans, intent upon retaining race purity, yet unable to restrain
men of their race from unions with colored women, and, in most instances unable
to discover the guilty white, turned with a terrible wrath upon the helpless
mixbreed. The half-castes were not permitted to reside within the limits of the
city: were reviled by all, both black and white; and finally, the Aryan laws
provided that, under certain conditions, the soldiers might slay them without
mercy. It is evident that such extreme measures would not be permanently
enforced, most of all by men of the Aryan race, whose history is general marked
by tolerance to races and creeds. In spite of legal restrictions, the mixbreeds
increased. Caste prolonged race purity but did not preserve it. The modern
"Aryan" in India is just such a mixture as the ancient Aryan was
authorized to kill.
Of the "220,000,000" so-called Aryans of India it is not likely
that one-tenth of one per cent are whites of the Aryan race. "Even the
haughty Rajputs, formerly of the Kshatria (military) caste, have long lost
their racial purity, and are now largely intermingled with Bhils and other
primitive non-Aryans" (Keane). "Men who call themselves Hindoos still
exist, Sanskrit derivatives are still spoken, but the Hindoo spirit, however,
is dead; the noble blood has been lost in the Indian quagmire, in the
yellow-black-white swamp." (A.P. Schultz, Race or Mongrel, p. 61)
Races dwelling in common territory will eventually amalgamate; and by
observing the present, we are conscious that a slow amalgamation of white with non-white
is occurring even in Saxon circles, and we know that amalgamation has already
proved the end of hope in many Latin possessions. With the present in mind, we
are able to understand the problems confronting ancient India and realize the
Aryan's hopeless task in seeking to institute laws and customs that would
perpetuate his breed and the civilization which proceeded from his breed, and
which perished with it. The history of race contact will establish that the
Aryans undertook an impossible task. They brought religion, law and caste to
their aid, the most carefully devised agencies the world has known. But the
human intellect has never proved equal to the task of regulating sex relations.
In Indian history, as in Egyptian, we find that the further back we go the
greater the culture. This is explainable on the basis of breed. These
civilizations were founded by Caucasian peoples, who eventually were replaced,
by, or became mixed with, their colored subjects. That their cultures had a
Caucasian origin is a matter beyond doubt. To make clear the causation of their
decay, we may bring to bear numerous analogous instances from both ancient and
modern history. We have the Greek and roman cultures and those of Central and
Northern Latin-America, which were implanted by a breed and declined with the
breed which implanted them. There was gradual submergence of the creative
breeds into the non-creative which, in all instances, were more numerous.
Let us look to the high state from which the Aryans of India fell and we may
appreciate the loss to civilization. It was only about a century ago that the
Western World began to realize the riches of the Sanskrit literature and the
ancient glory of the Hindus. When the ancient treasures of the whites of India
were translated, Europeans were struck with amazement to learn that their own
language as that of the civilizers of India, and that the civilizers of India
were a white people with a culture so deep and varied, and of such ancient
origin, as to suggest that India was the home of the Aryan peoples, and that
Western arts and creeds had been derived from Asia. We know now that the Aryans
of India, like those of modern America and Australia, were conquering invaders,
and that, like those of America and Australia, they carried their culture with
them and imposed it upon colored races.
Hindu history reveals that it was the early invaders, not their mongrel
offspring, who displayed affinity in ideals, race, and culture to the Europeans
of the days preceding steam and electricity. However alien the Saxon student
may feel when pouring over Egyptian and Assyrian records, wh has consciousness
of kinship with these tall, high-nosed, aggressive warriors, priests, and
people, who emerge form obscurity upon the banks of the Indus, spread gradually
to domination of the great Indian peninsula, carry their culture at a later
date to Ceylon and Cambodia, and, after centuries of effort to retain race
purity, gradually subside into the mongrel mass.
The Aryans opposed the colored peoples whom they conquered, not only on the
ground of race, but on the basis of religion as well.
The colored "were abhorrent to the Aryans on account of their blacker
blood and their unorthodox religion."(Lionell D. Barnett, Antiquities
of India, p. 4) Knowledge of the religions to which the Aryans objected
will give justification for their opposition. Along with barbaric
superstitions, the Dravidians practiced a cult of gross obscenity and followed
these religious observances with debauchery of unrestricted passion. Also, the
Dravidians recognized only the mother as head of the family, their practices
being such as to render this custom the only satisfactory way to determine
kinship. Now, the Dravidians were the mongrel remains of the previous
civilization that had perished in India, and represented a far more capable
type of humanity than the blacks about them and to the south. The Aryans found
the best of India steeped in inexpressible obscenity and of this, as well as of
the colored blood, they felt abhorrence.
To the religion of India, the Aryans opposed their own and with much
success, so long as they remained white. The religion of the Indian Aryan had
much in common with that of our European ancestors prior to the introduction of
Christianity; and, if we look to their religion, we find that the Aryans of
thirty centuries ago held high ideals, many of which it would be difficult to
improve. They believed fervently in immortality, though the immortality was to
be obtained by works rather than by faith. They believed firmly in the
incarnation of God walking as man upon earth, that such incarnation had been
accomplished; and they look forward to the return to earth of the same Redeemer
incarnate.
The ancient laws of India (Institutes of Manu) represent an attempt to codify
Hindu law just as the Code of Justinian represents the codification of the laws
of certain Western Aryans. There is much in agreement between them, and the
latter were probably well known to the Roman jurists. In these laws and
throughout the Vedic hymns there is not a trace "of the many deplorable
beliefs, traditions and customs, which in later years have debased the
religious and social life of India; nor is there idolatry in the ancient
religion such as characterizes the present, nor caste, nor enforced widowhood;
neither is there any trace of, nor the faintest shred of authority for, either
suttee or child marriage." (Indian Through the Ages, F. A. Steele,
PP. 8,9.)
The early Hindu prayed to the god "comprehended all things."
"Take me to the immortal and imperishable abode where light dwells
eternal." "They still felt the impulse of wonder" and looked
into immeasurable space "full of blazing and self-luminous worlds."
(Steele). The Institutes of Manu teach that of "all duties, the principal
is to acquire a true knowledge of one supreme God; that it is the most exalted
of all sciences because it insures immortality." ( Cradle Land of Arts
and Creeds, p. 25, by Charles Sloan.)
Thus at the very opening of recorded Aryan history, say four thousand years ago,
we find the men of our race in possession of the most exalted religious
concepts; the theory of one all-powerful God; of God become incarnate for man's
sake; of a miraculous birth of this incarnate God; and an expectation of a
reincarnation of this God. They prayed, fasted and watched for His reappearing.
At the time of Jesus, Palestine had been under Aryan or semi-Aryan influence
for more than a thousand years. Nor was this influence entirely form without;
for a part of the inhabitants were Aryan, or partly Aryan, in blood. Although
the centuries have brought great ethnic changes in this part of Western Asia,
there long remained ethnic traces of the early Nordic blood, which was
supplemented in copious measure by Greek conquests. The Hebrews under the influence
of Judaism proved a difficult problem to their Assyrian conquerors, and large
numbers of them were sent into exile. This was especially true of the districts
of Galilee and Samaria. Here their lands were given to non-Hebrews with the
express purpose of implanting a population which would be amenable to Assyrian
control. But man-eating lions visited the new settlers, who believed that the
gods of the dispossessed Jews (really Israelites, but the author did not know
the difference) were angry because they were no longer worshiped. The newcomers
consequently sent a deputation to the Assyrian monarch begging that religious
instructors be sent to teach them to worship the gods of the land. (Read II
Kings, 17-41). The instructors were selected from the exiled Jewish priests
and sent to Galilee, causing the settlers to add a Jewish cult to their
religion. But the new religion did not change their race; and the Jews of
Judea, grown exclusive by oppression, never accepted the Galilean
"Jews" on terms of equality. They held the Galilean in contempt as
being non-Hebrew in blood and possess of a spurious Judaism. From Galilee,
which was predominantly, though not wholly, non-Hebrew, Jesus came. The Jews
rejected him because of his origin.
The Great Teacher made use of the good that was in the Aryan religion as
well as that in Judaism. His Sermon on the Mount is almost wholly Aryan; its
teaching was found in the earliest Aryan instruction and was recorded in the
literature of both Eastern and Western branches of that race, centuries before
its delivery in Judea. Let it be remembered that the Aryans were looking for a
reincarnation of God, the Jews for an earthly Messiah. The Aryans (the
Westerner purer branch) have accepted Jesus as the incarnation of God; the Jews
rejected him. The Christian world today is almost wholly constituted of the
Aryan and those subject to the Aryan. Jesus as God incarnate is the highest
expression of Aryan faith, and his social teachings are the highest expression
of Aryan ethics.
Compare the exalted religious ideals of the early Aryans who conquered India
with the repulsive cults of their mixbreed descendants, and what devout
Christian will not feel a shudder of the soul when he contemplates the
immeasurable and seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the "fair"
people who entered India forty centuries ago and their innumerably mongrel
posterity?
Let us quote well-recognized authority which shall serve to heighten our
estimate of the culture of the conquerors of the Punjab. "The Aryan tribes
of the Veda are acquainted with most of the metals. They have blacksmiths,
coppersmiths and goldsmiths among them, besides carpenters, barbers and other
artisans. They fight from chariots and freely use the horse, though not yet the
elephant, in war. They have settled down as husbandmen, till the fields with
the plough, and live in villages and towns. They have learned to build ships'
(river boats)... unlike the modern Hindu, the Aryans of the Veda ate
beef...thus the stout Aryans spread eastward through Northern India, pushed on
from behind by late arrivals of their own stock, and driving before them, or
reducing to bondage, the earlier black-skinned' races." (Encyclopedia
Brittanica, 11th Ed., article "India.")
The "black-skinned" peoples with whom the whites came into contact
were so numerous that miscegenation between the Aryan warriors and colored
women soon produced a mixbreed element which threatened the purity of the white
race. Knowing that race characteristics have not changed during the psst forty
centuries, and possibly not materially in a hundred centuries, can we not see
that in early India there would be among the whites an element who wished to
expel the colored from the destruction successively taken, in order to create
an environment whereby the Aryan race and culture would be assured permanency?
And is it not likely that this element was overruled by others who opposed
"harsh measures" in dealing with the colored, and by another and more
powerful element of property owners who profited by labor of the colored and
were ready always to resort to force to keep them in serfdom? (Caste, as at
first consituted, was based on color; and its preservation in its original form
would have answered every purpose of slavery. Those opposed to expulsion of the
blacks relied upon caste to preserve the white breed and at the same time
enslave the colored.)
Sympathy for the oppressed can be shown to have played an important role in
the highly sensitive Aryans' dealing with the hapless elements of his own race,
though perhaps not so much as in his dealing with other races. At the time of
the removal of the American Indians from east of the Mississippi to their
present locations, there were many Americans who opposed the measure as
extremely cruel, although the retention of the Indians in their original homes
would have resulted in their absorption by the Saxon settlers and a consequent
lowering of Saxon capacity. The opponents of removal would have made mixbreeds
of the Caucasian to avoid offense to the Indian.
A critical study of race contact will prove that, however reprehensible are
the few sub-normal whites who are content that their offspring by colored
paramours be consigned to an inferior evolutionary status, it is not they, but
the sympathizing abnormal whites who have given the greatest impetus to race
amalgamation. This is especially true of the Anglo-Saxon Aryans, the sub-normal
of whom do interbreed with colored people, but the abnormal of whom, in theory
at least, assert that there should be no color line. For every slave owner of
the Teutonic colonies of England, Holland and Germany, and for every slave
owner of Teutonic America who has interbred with colored women, there have been
a thousand non-slave owners of Teutonic race living apart from the colored
races who have asserted that there is not, and should not be, a color line.
These, then, constitute real problems when dealing with colored races, the
sub-normal whites who transgress the color line in practice and the
super-normal whites who oppose the color line in theory.
Religion, that mighty agency in mongrelizing the Caucasian, with its
caste-eliminating, race-equalizing tenets, has been seized upon in all lands by
the supernormal whites in their efforts to abolish the color line. The
"melting pot" in India was not full until there arose a religion
attempting to offset the Hindu religion which gave its sanction to caste to
preserve the Caucasian. Hinduism taught the colored that caste was founded upon
the will of God. Its purpose was to keep the races apart. When the illegitimate
mixbreeds in India twenty-five centuries ago had increased until they were more
numerous than the whites, there arose Gautama Buddha, an aristocratic mixbreed
with yellow blood predominating, who stripped Hinduism (Brahmanism) of caste
and sought a religious reformation that would level the races of India. India
was ripe, the colored world was ripe and anxious for such a theory. The success
of Buddhism knew no bounds. It was popular! Why not? The teachings of its
founder gave to the mongrel a position in human society that evolution had
denied him in nature. It bridged an impassable chasm with an assumption.
We leave India, having seen that every social agency of the Aryan devised to
preserve race and civilization had failed; and that every social agency
observable in the modern Aryan's color problems was used in India to promote
amalgamation, and succeeded. The Aryan conquerors of India utilized every
remedial measure but one; they did not attempt geographical separation of
races.