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...address the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington saying: "The idea of charity is very old. It is included in the teachings of the earliest philosophers. It is one of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible. . . . Our country could secure no higher commendation, no greater place in history, than to have it correctly said that the Red Cross is truly American...
...Broken Hill mine has been found at Belingwe, near Bulawayo. Sir Arthur Keith, who estimated the age of the other skull as older than the Neanderthal man (50,000 years), will examine it. If further remains are found in South Africa, it may prove to be one of the earliest homes of the race, rivalling Java...
...Significance. The earliest dreams of mankind concern an imagined Earthly Paradise. Here is the Earthly Paradise of one of the most brilliant, varied and active minds of our time. The prescription will not suit all palates, but should, nevertheless, prove stimulating and provocative to anyone not a moron. A gorgeous but rigid dream?the acme of possible scientific and eugenic perfection?a fascinating and plausible illusion. And yet?in spite of all the merits of the book?one wonders at times. Can Heaven-on-Earth, if possible, prove quite so efficiently readymade...
Garvey's Theory: Civilization began among the Negroes (the Cush-ites, from whom the Egyptians, Phoenicians and Greeks acquired culture) . " The earliest Ethiopians were the first to worship according to the present belief." There is historical corroboration for the statement that Christ was black, or rather that His ancestry included all races...
...Workmen at St. Ouen, on the Island of Jersey, English Channel, found a prehistoric skull at first claimed to be that of an ape-woman older than Pithecanthropus (500,000 years), our earliest known near human ancestor. But Sir Arthur Keith and Dr. Smith Woodward, of the British Museum, believe it to be of the Neolithic period (from 5,000 to 10,000 years old). It was found in a burial place of people of that time, where bones and implements are plentiful...