Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 215
itoriesof the red man. In Oregon, Texas, California, and NewMexico, he is more a Yankee than ever, and his new provin-cialisms show his love of being separate and distinct from allothers. He is as intent upon creating a nationality of hisown as we should suppose it possible to be if the Indian… … evident from the greater resemblance of the Indian tribes inthose regions to the latter animal than to the former. Wherethe bear is noblest, there the American may be so, and therealso he is most liable to perversion. Where Indian civiliza-tion was greatest, there Indian degradation is lowest, and…
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