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" It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant. Savages, even within the limits of the same tribe, are not nearly so uniform in character, as has been often asserted. "
Publication of the American Sociological Society - Page 58
by American Sociological Association - 1910
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Volume 1

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1871 - 554 pages
...from all parts of Africa. The same remark holds good with the Polynesians, and with many other races. It may be doubted whether any character can be named...tribe, are not nearly so uniform in character, as has often been said. Hottentot women offer certain " M. <le Quatrefages has given (' Anthropolog. Review,'...
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The Descent of man

Charles Darwin - 1871 - 432 pages
...from all parts of Africa. The same remark holds good with the Polynesians, and with many other races. It may be doubted whether any character can be named...tribe, are not nearly so uniform in character as has often been said. Hottentot women offer certain peculiarities, more strongly marked than those occurring...
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Hints and Facts on the Origin of Man and of His Intellectual Faculties

Pius Melia - Human beings - 1872 - 124 pages
...in all degrees.' 2nd, ' Because distinctive character of every race of men is highly variable. . . . Savages, even within the limits of the same tribe, are not nearly so uniform in appearance as has often-been said. In the several American tribes, colour and hairiness differ considerably;...
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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1874 - 840 pages
...from all parts of Africa. The same remark holds good with the Polynesians, and with many other races. It may be doubted whether any character can be named...Savages, even within the limits of the same tribe, arc not nearly so uniform in character, as has been often asserted. Hottentot women offer certain peculiarities,...
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Lessons from Nature, as Manifested in Mind and Matter

St. George Jackson Mivart - Matter - 1876 - 488 pages
...Darwin and Huxley are not doubtful. Mr. Darwin says * as to the instability of racial characters: " it may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant." Again, as to the origin of the existing races from a single pair, he admits t that '' with our domestic...
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Lessons from Nature: As Manifested in Mind and Matter, Volume 25; Volume 590

St. George Jackson Mivart - Philosophy and religion - 1876 - 492 pages
...Darwin and Huxley are not doubtful. Mr. Darwin says * as to the instability of racial characters : " it may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant." Again, as to the origin of the existing races from a single pair, he admits t that " with our domestic...
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Charles Darwin's Works: The descent of man and seletion in relation to sex

Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 890 pages
...from all parts of Africa. The same remark holds good with the Polynesians, and with many other races. It may be doubted whether any character can be named...uniform in character, as has been often asserted. Hottentot women offer certain peculiarities, more strongly marked than those occurring in any other...
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Library of universal knowledge, science, Volume 2

1905 - 462 pages
...from all parts of Africa. The same remark holds good with the Polynesians, and with many other races. It may be doubted whether any character can be named...so uniform in character as has been often asserted. Hottentot women offer certain peculiarities, more strongly marked than those occurring in any other...
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The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 16

Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1911 - 948 pages
...together and amalgamates small heterogeneous groups into ever larger unities, into peoples, races and ' "It may be doubted whether any character can be named...1'origine, va done toujours perdant de son importance." — Renan, Discourses et conferences, ad ed., 297. ' Die Nationalitatenfrage uitd die Sotialdemocralie,...
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Publications, Volume 70

Folklore Society (Great Britain) - Folklore - 1912 - 742 pages
...which become apparent only as the result of long-continued study. Long ago Darwin taught us that " savages, even within the limits of the same tribe, are not nearly as uniform in character as has often been asserted." 8 M. Levy-Bruhl has recently urged that primitive...
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