In short, historical events appear to have been much more potent in leading races to civilization than their faculty, and it follows that achievements of races do not warrant us in assuming that one race is more highly gifted than the other.

That God created many pairs of the human race, differing from each other both externally and internally; that he fitted these pairs for different climates, and placed each pair in its proper climate ; that the peculiarities of the original pairs were preserved entire in their descendants...

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Page 87 And when they advanced that hideous hand towards my plate in order to serve me, I wished I were able to depart in order to eat a piece of bread elsewhere, rather than dine with such service. What unhappiness for the white race—to have tied their existence so closely with that of negroes in certain countries! God preserve us from such a contact! Appears in 11 books from 1971-2007

Page 163 - ... it is a fair inference that fossil men now extinct were less gifted than their descendants who have larger brains, that the subspecies which crossed the evolutionary threshold into the category of Homo sapiens the earliest have evolved the most... Appears in 13 books from 1933-2005

Page 135 - The lower races — such as the Veddahs or Australian Negroes — are physiologically nearer to the mammals, apes and dogs, than to the civilized European. Appears in 9 books from 1991-2003

Page 89 ... respects from the English, the Greeks, the Italians, etc., and because we see in these nations different turns of mind, does it follow that the particular degree of civilization attained by one is also the best that others could enjoy, and the best that could be introduced into their social condition ? We disclaim, however, all connection with any question involving political matters. It is simply with reference to the possibility of appreciating the differences existing between different men,... Appears in 8 books from 1850-1997

Page 367 - The arrogance of those people is simply unbelievable. They know next to nothing about how real animals evolve, live and become extinct. But despite their ignorance, the geochemists feel that all you have to do is crank up some fancy machine and you've revolutionized science. Appears in 7 books from 1988-2004

Page 82 In short, and to put it bluntly, Morton's summaries are a patchwork of fudging and finagling in the clear interest of controlling a priori convictions. Yet — and this is the most intriguing aspect of the case — I find no evidence of conscious fraud; indeed, had Morton been a conscious fudger, he would not have published his data so openly. Appears in 20 books from 1982-2007

Page 87 ... men. Nonetheless, it is impossible for me to repress the feeling that they are not of the same blood as us. In seeing their black faces with their thick lips and grimacing teeth, the wool on their head, their bent knees, their elongated hands, their large curved nails, and especially the livid color of the palm of their hands, I could not take my eyes off their face in order to tell them to stay far away. Appears in 22 books from 1971-2007

Page 155 - The Alpha and Omega of Homo sapiens: An Australian aboriginal woman with a cranial capacity of under 1,000 cc. (Topsy a Tiwi); and a Chinese sage with a brain nearly twice that size (Dr. Li Chi, the renowned archaeologist and director of Academia Sinica). Appears in 9 books from 1960-2004

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