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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    THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST ing power of the human Mother, that are dependent upon the external con¬ ditions of hfe ; as well as, to some extent, upon the suitability of marriages. He constructed, for the human race, a kind of échelle des êtres, in the sense of Bonnet and the transcendentalists. He placed the Negro at the foot of the ladder and the Caucasian at the top. The Mongol came between. In Chambers' words : ' The leading characters ... of the various races of mankind, are simply representations of particular stages in the developmen of the highest or Caucasian type. . . . The Mongolian is an arrested infant newly born. And so forth.' Chambers was then a monogenist : he had a monophyletic theory of the origin of the diverse extant human races. Like those who accept the Noachian tradition, he believed all existing human beings to have arisen from one primary human stock. But, unlike those who see, in Shem, in Ham, and in Japheth, three sons of one father from whom have sprung the- white, f8]