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.

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    Apres nous fetre occup6s si curieuscment des moyens de rendre plus belles et meilleures les races des animaux ou des plantes utiles et agreables; apres avoir remanie cent fois celle des chevaux et des chiens: apres avoir trans- plant, grerR, travaill6 de toutes les manieres, les fruits ct les fleurs, combien n'est il pas honteux de negliger totalement la race de l'homme! CABANI3. The highly interesting subject upon which you are writing is remarka- bly suited to the passing time in our country. Our aristocracy, by exclusive intermarriages among ancient families, proceed blindly to breed in contempt of deformities, of feeble intellect, or of hereditary madness, under the insti gation of pride or the love of wealth, until their race becomes extinct; while another portentous cause, that of unwholesome factories, threatens to dete- riorate the once brave manhood of England. I believe that, among mankind, as well as domesticated animals, there are physical and moral influences which may be regulated so as to improve or predispose both the corporeal and moral aptitudes; and certainly the most obvious course is that of select- ing the fit progenitors of both sexes. Sir A. Carlisle, t» a Letter to the Author Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by J. & H. G. Langley, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.