On the Negro's Place in NatureTrübner, for the Anthropological Society, 1863 - 60 pagine |
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The Negro's Place in Nature: A Paper Read Before the London Anthropological ... James Hunt Visualizzazione completa - 1864 |
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according Africa African Negro angle animal Anthropological Society aperture apophyses approaches arch Aryan Aryan race asserted blood bones Broca CARTER BLAKE cavities cerebellum cerebral characters civilised colour condyles convolutions coronal crania cranial sutures cranium dermis difference elliptic elongated especially European female external facial fact flattened foot forehead frequently frontal glenoid cavities gorilla hair hand human humerus incisors inclined inferior intellectual intelligence JAMES HUNT lateral less limbs lobe Louis Fraser male mammæ measurement ment mental Microcephaly molars muscles narrow nasal nature Negress Negro and European Negro brain Negro crania Negro race nose observed occipital bone occipital foramen parietal Paris peculiarity pelvis pigment posterior prognathism prominent proportion Pruner Bey rarely regards resembles respect rounded says skeleton skin skull slave squama Sudan superior jaw suture teeth Theodor Waitz tion tribes typical Negro vertebra vertical zygomatic arches
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Pagina 7 - It is quite certain that the Ape which most nearly approaches man, in the totality of its organization, is either the Chimpanzee or the Gorilla...
Pagina 30 - Negroes were numerous in Egypt, but their social position in ancient times was the same that it now is, that of servants and slaves.
Pagina 55 - slaves' now; nor do I wish, if it can be avoided, to see you slaves again: but decidedly you have to be servants to those that are born wiser than you, that are born lords of you; servants to the Whites, if they are (as what mortal can doubt they are?) born wiser than you. That, you may depend...
Pagina 38 - Many have oftentimes expressed the fond hope that the day is not far distant when we shall be able to control cancer.
Pagina 15 - Ethiopian variety, as observed m the genuine Negro tribes, may be thus summed up : 1. Narrow and depressed forehead ; the entire cranium contracted anteriorly : the cavity less, both in its circumference and transverse measurements. 2. Occipital foramen and condyles placed farther back. 3. Large space for the temporal muscles. 4. Great development of the face. 5. Prominence of the jaws altogether, and particularly of their alveolar margins and teeth ; consequent obliquity of the facial line. 6. Superior...
Pagina 44 - Christianity of more than three centuries duration in Congo has scarcely excited a progressive civilization. "Thus even the good qualities given to the Negro by the bounty of nature, have seemed only to make him a slave trodden down by every remorseless foot, and to brand him for ages with the epithet of outcast.
Pagina 29 - Scybalen. erat unica custos, Afra genus, tota patriam testante figura, torta comam labroque tumens et fusca colore, pectore lata, iacens mammis, compressior alvo, cruribus exilis, spatiosa prodiga planta. 35 contiriuis rimis calcanea scissa rigebant.
Pagina 42 - The Negroes are all, without exception, crafty, villanous and fraudulent, and very seldom to be trusted, being sure to slip no opportunity of cheating an European, nor indeed one another. A man of integrity is as rare among them as a white falcon...
Pagina 56 - slaves ' now ; nor do I wish, if it can be avoided, to see you slaves again : but decidedly you will have to be servants to those that are born wiser than you, that are born lords of you, — servants to the whites, if they are, as what mortal can doubt they are ? born wiser than you.
Pagina 52 - That the Negro becomes more humanised when in his natural subordination to the European than under any other circumstances.