Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 196
THE BEAR. 193 wild-boar, and is as ugly in disposition as he is in looks.You recognise in him the child-hating savage that Indian … mothers hold up as objects of terror to their little ones. Yan-kee mothers do so too; and if you should look in their facesyou would see that mixture of cunning and cruelty, that un-feeling mockery, that thoughtless insensibility, which you seehere. The polar bear is the very contrary of all this.…
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