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 human family other than the class from, which they have sprung.' Dr. Langdon-Down's general ethnic classifi¬ cation of imbeciles has long been forgotten—very unhappily—but the brilliancy of his detailed description of the Mongol or Kalmuck type of imbecile was at once admitted. Very little that is essential has been added to it, and the name of ' Mongol ' is, in every hospital for children and in every asylum, applied to imbeciles of the kind that he first distinguished with precision. For Chambers, it will be noted, only wrote in general terms of certain ill-developed and childish per¬ sons, and not of a special type of imbecile. Rather oddly, however, there is a recent tendency to assert that ' Mongolian imbeciles ' do not resemble racial Mongols, in spite of the fact that Dr. Langdon-Down defined the class he described by the obvious possession of characteristics of racial Mongols. This tendency arises from two sources : (i) stress is laid upon the idiocy rather [II]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18025110_0018.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
