The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1924
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Credit: The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MAN AND HIS THREE FACES HOMO Asiaticus : Severus, fastuosas, avarus : regitur opinionibus. HOMO Afer : Vafer, segnis, negligens : regitur arbitrio. We can take our stand at Charing Cross and can see these three Faces of Mankind borne by native Londoners : we can visit our public asylums and see them in degraded form : and we can, at the Zoo and the Natural History Museum, see them caricatured by the noisy, mischievous and lascivious chimpanzee, the dignified, philosophic and self-sufficient orang, and the slow, cunning, and brutal gorilla. Everywhere amongst us do these types segregate out, seeking their appropriate milieus : Homo Afer finds partners in the jazz-loving women of the night-clubs : Homo Europaeus (regitur ritibus) is seen participating with his kind in social and religious ceremony at the Ritz and the Cathedral ; and Homo Asiaticus, after presidency among the elder statesmen, may retire to semi- [99]