 | Henry A. Ramsay - African Americans - 1852 - 32 pages
...late distinguished Dr. Samuel G. Morton, of Philadelphia, in his Crania Egyptiaca, said "the physical organic characters which distinguish the several races of men, are as old as the earliest records of our species." Morton was no idle enthusiast, he was an acute observer and a profound... | |
 | Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon - Anthropology - 1855 - 828 pages
...in ancient times was the sime aa it now is : that of serrants and slaves. "The present Fellahs are the lineal and least mixed descendants of the Ancient..."We can now assert, with the plates of his splendid Denkmäler before us, that, notwithstanding the labors of our predecessors, they have left many doubts... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Smith, Samuel Kneeland - Ethnology - 1855 - 474 pages
...Egyptian and Negro with their modern representatives, it may be said " that the physical or prganic characters which distinguish the several races of...are as old as the oldest records of our species." MR. VAN AMRINGE,* while he admits that all the human family sprang from Adam ; that the whole race,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 856 pages
...of Egypt, Dr Morton could identify Egyptians, Negroes, Hellenes, and came to the conclusion that ' the physical or organic characters which distinguish...are as old as the oldest records of our species.' According to Dr Morton, the ancient Egyptians were a distinct race or species — ' one of the primordial... | |
 | Medicine - 1858 - 642 pages
...onward step ever made in ethnological science: in the forcible language of Morton, 'The physical pr organic characters which distinguish the several races...are as old as the oldest records of our species.' Its importance can scarcely be over-estimated, always assuming that the evidence from which it is deduced... | |
 | 1875 - 642 pages
...^Egyptiaca," ill which he established firmly the unchangeableness of human races. As he expressed it, " The physical or organic characters which distinguish...are as old as the oldest records of our species." He had previously pointed out pictures in the Egyptian tombs belonging to the early dynasties, nearly... | |
 | Sir John Linton Myres - Anthropology - 1916 - 88 pages
...distinguished author of the Crania JEgyptiaca published in 1844; where the conclusion is maintained that "the organic characters which distinguish the several races of men are as old as the oldest record of our species." It was indeed to determine this point that he turned his attention to Egyptian... | |
 | History - 1916 - 388 pages
...distinguished author of the Crania ffigyptiaca published in 1844; where the conclusion is maintained that "the organic characters which distinguish the several races of men are as old as the oldest record of our species." It was indeed to determine this point that he turned his attention to Egyptian... | |
 | Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord - History - 1995 - 544 pages
...by science is the assumption that climate or habit of life can account for the differences of race. "The physical or organic characters which distinguish the several races of men, are as old," says Morton, "as the oldest records of our species." We frequently find one race inhabiting an extent... | |
 | Malini Johar Schueller - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 266 pages
...their social position in ancient times was the same that it now is, that of servants and slaves.... The physical or organic characters which distinguish...men, are as old as the oldest records of our species. 55 It is no wonder that Secretary of State John Calhoun read in Crania /Egyptica evidence of the historical... | |
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The physical or organic characters which distinguish the several races of men, are as old as the oldest records of our species. 
