>Even Henry holds to Arthur Custances Racial views and cites Custance in The
>Biblical Basis of Modern Science, p. 441. Custance held that each racial
>group had certain skills not held by other racial groups. According to
>Custance, Hamitic peoples were to be servants par excellance. And Henry
>happily cites Custance's work. Many blacks have found this offensive. I
>don't blame them.
I'm certainly no fan of Henrys, but I found myself in a similar quandary.
I wanted to include a quote concerning the flood by Alexander Winchell
from his book, _The Preadamites_. Winchell could see that Adam of Genesis
came too late in history to start the human race, but considered him to
be the founder of the Caucasian race! He cited examples of Caucasian
superiority and even devoted a chapter to the "inferiority of the
Negroes," showing brain weight, skull size, and behavioral patterns as
evidence.
I also consider this offensive. More so today, however, than I would have
40 years ago. My writing is 110 years after Winchell. His attitude, as
was Custance's, could be described as somewhat typical for their day.
That's not an excuse, mind you, but Thomas Jefferson, a slave holder, is
oft quoted too.
Dick Fischer
THE ORIGINS SOLUTION
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