It has been charged upon the views here advanced that they tend to the support of slavery. ... Is that a fair objection to a philosophical investigation?
‘The Diversity of Origin of the Human Races’ Christian Examiner (1850) 49 113. Cited by S.J. Gould in The Mismeasure of Man (Pelican Books 1984) p. 45 and in ‘Flaws in a Victorian Veil’ in The Panda’s Thumb (WW Norton, New York, 1980) p. 171.
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