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New physiognomy (1867)

Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 376

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more than is necessary for this purpose, he may obtain riches and luxuries, neither of whichis known to either Hottentotor Esquimaux. Here reasonreigns, and man rises in thescale out of mere instinct—per-ceptive intellect, passions, andpropensities—and stands forththe full measure of a man, inall… … Fig. 472.—An Esquimaux. ing to the more favored countries. And it is equally truethat one of the finest races would soon degenerate to the levelof the lowest should his lot^be cast amid Arctic frosts orunder scorching equatorial suns. The differences which we seeamong men are thermal and…

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