Race mixture : studies in intermarriage and miscegenation / by Edward Byron Reuter.

  • Edward Byron Reuter
Date:
1931
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Credit: Race mixture : studies in intermarriage and miscegenation / by Edward Byron Reuter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    physical grounds. If the racial groups differ in their degree of resemblance to the simian forms, it may be possible to show that they represent stages in evolutionary development. In certain respects the whites are more sharply in contrast to the apes than are other races. This is notably true with respect to brain weight and size in which respects they overtop the other racial divisions. Assuming a correlation between the size of the organ and the efficiency of its functioning, the inference is immediate: the white racial groups excel the colored races and the north European white stock is superior to the other subgroups of the white division. The supporters of this doctrine commonly extend its scope to include sex and class differences within the given society: women are inferior to men in size of brain and hence in the efficiency of their mental processes; the aristocratic, leisure, educated, professional, and other well-fed groups excel the socially inferior groups in the average size and weight of brain. The greater his¬ toric achievement of the upper classes and of men over women is taken as a cultural expression of the biological facts. The Spencerian position just outlined has been supplemented and refined by certain findings of experimental psychology. Recently, many different tests have been constructed in the effort to measure the comparative mental ability of individuals. They are designed to separate native equipment f8l
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