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Indigenous races of the earth; (1857)

Nott, Josiah Clark, 1804-1873, [from old catalog] ed, Gliddon, George Robins, 1809-1857, [from old catalog] joint ed, Maury, Louis Ferdinand Alfred, 1817-1892. [from old catalog], Pulszky, Ferencz Aurelius. [from old catalog], Meigs, James Aitken, 1829-1879. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.; London, Trübner & co. · leaf 200

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P. CorneliusScipio Africanus [67].189 All earlier effi-gies were either not portraits at all, — asfor instance, the seven Tuscan statues ofthe kings, mentioned in the old authors,which stood before the Capitol, — orthey are too indistinct to be of use forethnology. This applies to the headswe see… … Scipio Africanus. 189 Visconti, Iconographie rornaine, Paris, 1817, pi. Ill, fig. 2. 176 THE ART OF ROME. and their workmanship little artistical. Besides, we know fromPliny that the family pride of the Romans eared more for the namesthan for the likenesses of their ancestors. The admiral…

Ethnology · Language and languages · Race · Craniology · Acclimatization · Monogenism and polygenism · Monkeys

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