Excerpt from Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, Vol. 3: February, 1909 Every few months, the New York Evening Journal, Mr. Hearst's paper, feasts its readers upon a brief editorial dealing in the most novel way with the Egyptian Sphinx and the negro. This editorial was used again last December and, asking the pardon of its author (whom I assume to be the very able and learned Arthur Brisbane), I propose to discuss it. The Hearst paper, referring to the thick lip of the negro, declares that those lips appear upon every Sphinx in Egypt; and that the ancestors of the negro were laying the foundations of our religion and were mapping the stars at a time when our ancestors were gibbering savages, living in caves, sharpening bones and eating raw meat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.