In Anacalypsis, the early 19th Century Druid and Master Mason
Godfrey Higgins wrote: TWO ANCIENT ETHIOPIAS.—GREAT BLACK NATION
IN ASIA.—THE BUDDHA OF INDIA A NEGRO.—THE ARABIANS WERE
CUSHITES.—MEMNON.—SHEPHERD KINGS.—HINDOOS AND EGYPTIANS
SIMILAR.— SYRIA PEOPLED FROM INDIA. 1. In taking a survey of the
human inhabitants of the world, we find two classes,
distinguished from each other by a clear and definite line of
demarkation, the black and white colours of their skins. This
distinguishing mark we discover to have existed in ages the most
remote. If we suppose them all to have descended from one pair,
the question arises, Was that pair black or white? If I were at
present to say that I thought them black, I should be accused of
a fondness for paradox, and I should find as few persons to
agree with me, as the African negroes do when they tell
Europeans that the Devil is white. (And yet no one, except a
West-India planter, will deny that the poor Africans have reason
on their side.) However, I say not that the