Intermarriage, or, The mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineations of the structure and forms and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children : in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals / by Alexander Walker.

  • Alexander Walker
Date:
1853
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Credit: Intermarriage, or, The mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineations of the structure and forms and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children : in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QW W/73 19 S3 JL Apres nousOtreoccupissi curieusement desmoycns derendrep.lS belles ct mellleuree lea races due animaux ou des plantcs utiles et agreables apres avoir remanie cent Ibis cello des chevaux et des chiens: aprcs avoir trans- plante, graflfe, travallle de toutcs les manieres, les fruits ct Ies flours, combicn n'est ii paa honteux de negiiger totalement la race de 1'hoinme ! Cabanis. The highly Interesting subject upon which you are writing is remaika- bly suited to tlie passing time in our country. Our aristocracy, by exclusive Intermarriages a ng 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 deto- theonce brave manhood of England. I believe that, among mankind, as well as domesticated animals, there arc physical and moral influences which may be regulated so as to improve or predispose both the corporeal and mural aptitudes; and certainly the most obvious course is that of select big the fit progenitors of both sexes. Sir A. Caklislk, in 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.
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