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>Accordingly now the Adam of our race would have to be thought of as black, in any case, and it is ridiculous when painters represent this first human being as white, in the colour that originated through paling. 69 Furthermore, since Jehovah created him in his own image, then he too should be depicted as black in works of art, although one can leave him the traditional white beard since the thin beard depends not on the black colour but merely on the Ethiopian race. Indeed, the oldest images of the Madonna and Christ child, those found in the Levant and even in a few ancient Italian churches, have a dark complexion. In fact the whole chosen people of God was black or certainly dark brown and is still now darker than we who stem from pagan tribes that immigrated earlier. Present-day Syria , however, has been populated by hybrids who stem in part from northern Asia (as for instance the Turcomans). Similarly Buddha is occasionally depicted as black, and even Confucius (Davis, The Chinese , vol. 2, p. 66). 70 That the white complexion is a degeneration and unnatural is evidenced by the disgust and repugnance it evinced in some peoples of the African interior when they first saw it; to
