Excerpt from The Natural History of the Human Species: Its Typical Forms, Primeval Distribution, Filiations, and Migrations The color of the skin, in this variety, is while; to this exclusively belongs the soft-spreading blush, the faithful index of the heart, which a European writer has erroneously made a moral as well as a physi cal difference between the races; to this race belongs redness of the cheeks. The hair varies in color from black to flaxen, is soft in quality and abundant. The color of the eyes generally ...
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Excerpt from The Natural History of the Human Species: Its Typical Forms, Primeval Distribution, Filiations, and Migrations The color of the skin, in this variety, is while; to this exclusively belongs the soft-spreading blush, the faithful index of the heart, which a European writer has erroneously made a moral as well as a physi cal difference between the races; to this race belongs redness of the cheeks. The hair varies in color from black to flaxen, is soft in quality and abundant. The color of the eyes generally follows that of the skin and hair, depending, as it does, on the amount Of color ing matter which is usually distributed equally in these different parts. The face is small, oval, and almost perpendicular; the features distinct; the forehead lofty and broad; the nose narrow and rather aquiline; the mouth small; the lips thin and slightly turned out; the front teeth in both jaws perpendicular the chin full and rounded. This is the face which agrees best with our ideas of beauty, being the happy mean between the laterally expanded face of the Mongo lian and the lengthened face of the Negro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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