Antenor Firmin, The Equality of the Human Races, pp.226-227, “Egypt and Civilization” (University of Illinois Press, Champlain: 2002).

“'The monuments, sculptures, and inscriptions of the Fifth Dynasty,' writes Lepsius, 'take us back to a flourishing civilization that preceded the Christian era by four thousand years. We cannot emphasize enough, how early a date this is, especially until now considered incredible.'

“What was the state of Europe and Europeans during the same period and even much earlier? 'Around the time of Moses' birth,' writes Olivier Beauregard, 'when Cecrops of Sais founded Athens, when Deucalion ruled over Lycoria, about eight hundred years before the foundation of Rome, more than a thousand years before the Phoceans built Marseilles, about six years before a colony of the Phoenicians founded Gades (Cadiz), the people of the Nile Valley had already been living sophisticated lives in a forty-century old civilization, enjoying the benefits of a very advanced industry capable of meeting the collective needs of a population used to the delicacies of a refined social life. In that era, they were familiar with all the arts of peace, and they had long ago demonstrated their military power to their neighbors in Asia and Africa. But as for us Europeans, we were known to them only as savage creatures covered with tattoos and dressed in animal pelts. We were then, in the eyes of the Egyptians, what the natives of New Caledonia are in our eyes today.'”