Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro RacesDade and Thompson, 1844 - 53 עמודים |
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עמוד 22 - Caucasian, are the shortest lived of any class of the human race. " '3d. That the mulattoes are not more liable to die under the age of 25 than the whites or blacks ; but from 25 to 40 their deaths are as 10 to 1 of either the whites or blacks between those ages ; from 40 to 55, the deaths are as 50 to 1 ; and from 55 to 70, 100 to 1.
עמוד 23 - ... 4th. That the mortality of the free people of color is more than 100 per cent greater than that of slaves. " '5th. That those of unmixed extraction in the free states are not more liable to sickness or premature death than the whites of their rank and condition in society ; but that the striking mortality so manifest among the free people of color, is in every community and section of the country invariably confined to the.
עמוד 36 - Deluge; an opinion which is irreconcileable with the enormous thickness and almost infinite subdivisions of these strata, and with the numerous and regular successions which they contain of the remains of animals and vegetables, differing more and more widely from existing species, as the strata in which we find them are older, or placed at greater depths.
עמוד 45 - ... speculate on the formation of the globe. The expressions of Moses are evidently accommodated to the first and familiar notions derived from the sensible appearances of the earth and heavens : and the absurdity of supposing that the literal interpretation of terms in Scripture ought to interfere with the advancement of philosophical inquiry, would have been as generally forgotten as renounced, if the oppressors of Galileo had not found a place in history.
עמוד 45 - Moses are evidently accommodated to the first and familiar notions derived from the sensible appearances of the earth and heavens : and the absurdity of supposing that the literal interpretation of terms in Scripture ought to interfere with the advancement of philosophical inquiry, would have been as generally forgotten as renounced, if the oppressors of Galileo had not found a place in history. No rational naturalist would attempt to describe, either from the brief description in Genesis or otherwise,...
עמוד 36 - ... placed at greater depths. The fact that a large proportion of these remains belong to extinct genera, and almost all of them to extinct species, that lived and multiplied and died on or near the spots where they are now found, shows that the strata in which they occur were deposited slowly and gradually, during long periods of time, and at widely distant intervals. These extinct animals and vegetables could therefore have formed no part of the creation with which we are immediately connected.
עמוד 36 - ... security as to those points in which they differ, and, confronting them with one another, may remain safe and untouched between them. But when they agree, this security fails. There is no neutralization of authority among them as to the age of the world ; and Cuvier, with his catastrophes and his epochs, leaves the popular opinion nearly as far behind him, as they who trace our present continent upward through an indefinite series of ancestors, and assign many millions of years to the existence...
עמוד 44 - There is nothing in them, either to gratify the curiosity or repress the researches of mankind, when brought, in the progress of cultivation, to calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies or speculate on the formation of the globe. The expressions of Moses are evidently accommodated to the first and familiar notions derived from the sensible appearances of the earth and heavens: and the absurdity of supposing that the literal...
עמוד 18 - M'CulIoh's apprehension, the nearest approach to the true coloui" of the native Americans. Dr. Morton considers that the "brown race" most correctly designates them collectively. " Although," says he, " the Americans thus possess a pervading and characteristic complexion, there are occasional and very remarkable deviations, including all the tints from a decided white to an unequivocally black skin.
עמוד 6 - And the devil, taking Him up into an high mountain, showed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto Him, All this power will I give Thee, and the glory of them ; for that is delivered unto me ; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be Thine.