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    Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20
    Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20
    Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20
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    Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20

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    Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20

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      Title: Alexander Crummell: An Apostle of Negro Culture

      The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 20

      Author: William H. Ferris

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      OCCASIONAL PAPERS NO. 20.

      American Negro Academy

      Alexander Crummell

      An Apostle of Negro Culture

      BY

      WILLIAM H. FERRIS

      WASHINGTON, D. C.:

      PUBLISHED BY THE ACADEMY

      1920

      ALEXANDER CRUMMELL

      AN APOSTLE OF NEGRO CULTURE.

      ALEXANDER CRUMMELL

      AN APOSTLE OF NEGRO CULTURE.

      A noted English lawyer-author has declared that the twelfth chapter of Ecclesiastes is the final word of the world’s philosophy; that no ancient or modern thinker has uttered a profounder word. And in the seventh verse of that chapter it reads, Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

      Metaphysicians tell us that through his five senses, man is in touch with and in relation to his physical environment and a physical world, and that through his reason, imagination, conscience, aesthetic and religious intuitions, man is in touch with and in relation to his spiritual environment and a spiritual world. They also tell us that at death, the soul and body merely part company and go their respective ways. The oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and other chemical elements in the body mingle with the material elements from which they came. And the soul of man, the ego, the center of self-consciousness, recognitive memory and reflective thought, which has maintained its identity amid the changes of the physical organism, will survive the destruction of that organism and live on and on in the spirit world, embodied in whatever form and clothed with whatever garments its Maker so decreed.

      Scientists tell us that when you throw a pebble in a stream, it sets up a series of ever-widening circles until it reaches the shore. They tell us that when you utter an audible sound, you start in motion sound waves

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