Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 259
of a Chinaman, and as the degenerate Italian is a miserableimpersonation of the Englishman. It will not do for the Irishto resemble frogs, nor for dogs to resemble Frenchmen. The … consciousness of the Irishman adapts him to domestic life, towhich the dog is suited ; and the instinctiveness of the French-man adapts him to communism, like that of the frog, or thosewonderful examples of instinct the bee and the ant: and anattempt to reverse the order of things is destructive to…
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