The anthropological works of Alexander Walker (Volume 2).

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1843
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Credit: The anthropological works of Alexander Walker (Volume 2). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    ADVERTISEMENT. The great object of this work is altogether new and heretofore unattempted—the establishment not merely of a new science—but of that science which is by far the most interesting to humanity—the science which, for the first time, points out and explains all the natural laws that, according to each particular choice in intermarriage, determine the precise forms and qualities of the progeny,—which unfolds the mode in which, and the causes why beauty, health and intellect result from certain unions, and deformi- ty, disease and insanity from others,—and which en- ables us, under all given conditions, and with abso- lute certainty, to predict the degree and kind of these, which must result from each intermarriage. The philosophical bases of this science have, more- over, nothing to do with hypothesis or supposition ;— they are the indisputable, though hitherto unapplied, facts of anatomy and physiology ;—and their present popular applications are rendered subjects of absolute demonstration by descriptions and drawings of fami- lies (some of them well known to the public;) while every reader has the power of adding to their number among the families of his acquaintance. They are further subjected to demonstration by all the more important facts, here stated, as to the breeding of do- iseaticatod animals-i-facta which have oat hitherto