Some observations on the tegumentary differences which exist among the races of man / by Robert Dunn.

  • Robert Dunn
Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Some observations on the tegumentary differences which exist among the races of man / by Robert Dunn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The more closely and carefully we study the typical races, and the effects of climate and position on their geographical distribution, the more we ai'e constrained to admit that tegu- mentary differences present to us no impassable barrier against the conclusion, that all the existing varieties of the great family of man are derived and descended from a single stock. On the contrary, does not the conviction become irresistible for the unity of the human species, when we look around us in this great metropolis, and behold, amid the chosen people, the Hebrew nation, the descents of Abraham, every variety of com- plexion, from the fair-haired, rosy and ruddy faced Englishman, to the crisp and frizzley-haired, and dark and dusky countenance of the swarthy Negro.
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