The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.
- Francis Graham Crookshank
- Date:
- 1924
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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 the black and the yellow peoples, he believed that the so-called Caucasian, or White man, has developed from a primary stock by way of stages still represented by the Negro, or Black man, and the Mongol, or Yellow man. Anticipating the doctrine now known as that of recapitulation by the in¬ dividual of the history of the race, he maintained that a Caucasian foetus represents the Negro stage, and a Caucasian infant the Mongol stage, of human evolution. Now, in support of his theory he alleged a very striking fact to which altogether insufficient attention has been paid by anthropologists and ethnologists ; a fact which forms the point de départ of the present discussion. He said that parents too nearly related tend to produce ofíspring of the Mongolian type—that is, persons who in maturity still are a kind of children}^ Although some exception may well be taken to the form of this statement, and although no one would now support Chambers' system of anthropogeny, [9]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18025110_0016.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
