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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    THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST methods as is the squaring of the circle, the settlement of the question of uni versais, or the final reconciliation of any of the classical philosophical and mathematical antinomies. But this does not make Klaatsch's notions any the less interesting. We may call his scheme an hypothesis, if we will. Peut-être bien, as said recently a celebrated Frenchman—in another con¬ text, it is true—mais, ça ne fait mal à personne ! Now Klaatsch, as Thacker puts it, originally regarded the great apes as degenerate offspring from one pre¬ human stock which, in adapting them¬ selves to special conditions of life, sacrificed important parts. They cut ofí one way of upward development by reducing the thumb, for example. Whilst they did this, other branches, more favoured, evolved upward (still however retaining primitive characters) and became the races of mankind. But later, Klaatsch (whose thoughts were driven in a certain direction by many convergent impulses) as a result [112]