The plurality of the human race

For a long period, in mediæval days, science was to most people what it was to Servetus, a simple paraphrase or glossary of a revealed text. In this was the truth, and if observ...

Here, without any doubt, man is indeed the first of the organisms, when one tries to place in linear series all those which move on our planet. It is, also, not his _relative_ p...

On one occasion, two monkeys were brought into the presence of the orang described by Grant, about which we spoke in the last chapter. They were led by a chain up to the animal,...

The naturalist who has in our time most interested himself in the classification of vertebrata, Prince Charles Bonaparte, gives his own opinion as follows:--“Man may be consider...

We have endeavoured to prove in the preceding pages the specific unity of the biological phenomena in each Order, which are to be found among the superior animals and man. This...

From time immemorial, common sense has enlightened mankind upon the intellectual differences which make one nation differ from another, and one race from another. Almost all nat...

Monogenists--starting from unity of origin as a fact, if not proved, at least accepted and unquestionable,--were necessarily led to discover a physiological explanation of the p...

We must regard hybridity in a double point of view, as being able or unable to give an indication of the real value of different human races, as compared with the acknowledged n...

We have now arrived at the limits of the task which we proposed to attempt, and we hope, after what has gone before, that we shall be able to arrive at some scientific conclusion.

All science leads necessarily to a _system_; and system signifies here, not the proceeds of observation or a route followed by analysis or synthesis in order to arrive at the kn...