Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![or else it was not needful to preserve them, seeing they might be generated again by others, as the mules, the hyaena, and the like, the one begotten by asses and mares, and the other by foxes and wolves. And, whereas by discovering of strange lands wherein there are found diverse beasts and birds differing in colour or stature from those of these Northern parts, it may be supposed by a superficial consideration that all those which wear red and pied skins or feathers are differing from those that are less painted and wear plain russet or black, they are much mistaken that so think. And for my own opinion I find no difference but only in magnitude between the cat of Europe and the ounce of India, and even those dogs which are become wild in Hispaniola, with which the Spaniards used to devour the naked Indians, are now changed to wolves and begin to destroy the breed of their cattle and do also oftentimes tear asunder their own children. The common crow and rook of India is full of red feathers in the drowned and low islands of Caribana, and the blackbird and thrush hath his feathers mixed with black and carnation in the northern parts of Virginia. The dogfish of England is the shark of the Southern ocean, for, if colour or magnitude made a difference of species, then were the negroes, which we call the black mores [sic], non animalia rationalia, not men, but some kind of strange beast; and so the giants of South America should be of another kind than the people of this part of the world. We also](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
