Intermarriage, or, The natural laws by which beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity, from others : with delineations of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent in every pair, bestows on children, and an acount of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1841
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    being of the human race, not less than the beauty and utility of form and action, of animals of every rank in the creation. And it must be admitted, I am sure—and the admission involves no common approbation—that in pursuing these most delicate inquiries, your language and your modes of ex- pression, are always calculated to impart a know- ledge of the fact or the inference which you pro- pose to communicate, without awakening any feel- ings, which may disturb the chaste sobriety of phi- losophical research. You have indeed, in wending your way through this beautiful and physiologi- cally attractive portion of natural science, verified, if I mistake not, an exquisite expression, handed down to us with many truths of mighty moment, that “ to the pure all things are pure.” I wait, with eager expectation, the appearance of your next volume (already announced as pre- pared for the press), which completes this extraor- dinary series; and remain. My dear Sir, Sincerely and respectfully your’s, . George Birkbeck. h 5 To Alex. Walker, Esq.