Researches Into the Physical History of Man (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Researches Into the Physical History of Man

In the course of this essay I have maintained the opinion that all mankind constitute but one race or proceed from a single family, but I am far from wishing to interest any religious pre dilections in favour of my conclusions. Ou the contrary I am ready to admit, and shall be glad to believe, if it can be made to appear, that the truth of the scriptures is not involved in the decision of this question. I have made no re.

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Excerpt from Researches Into the Physical History of Man

The nature and causes of the physical diversities which characterize different races of men, though a curious and interesting subject of inquiry, is one which has rarely engaged the notice of writers of our own country. The few English authors who have treated of it, at least those who have entered into the investigation on physiological grounds, have for the most part maintained the opinion that there exist in mankind several distinct species. A considerable and very respectable class of foreign writers, at the head of whom we reckon Buffon and Blumenbach, have given their suffrages on the contrary side of this question, and have entered more diffusely into the proof of the doctrine they advocate.

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