[222] Dissertation Physique sur les Différences des Traits du Visage, p. 17.
[223] See above, p. 85.
[224] Yvan, De France en Chine, p. 175, Paris, 1853. [“M. Périer has mentioned, according to Yvan, the beauty of the inhabitants of the island of Réunion, who descend from a few couples only, and yet have known how to preserve their purity of blood” (An Inquiry into Consanguineous Marriages and Pure Races, Dr. E. Dally; transl. by H. J. C. Beavan, Anthrop. Review, p. 97, 1864).—Editor.]
[225] White, Account of the regular Gradation of Man, p. 112. Morton, Crania Americana, Introduction. Prince de Wied, Voyage au Brésil, vol. ii, p. 310. Bory de St. Vincent, Essai Zoologique sur le genre humain, vol. ii, p. 20.
[226] Desmoulins, Histoire Naturelle des races humaines, p. 162. Indigenous Races of the Earth, p. 585.
[227] White, Account of the regular Gradation of Man, p. 104.
[228] W. Edwards, Des Caractères Physiologiques des races humaines, p. 14. Niebuhr (transl.), Lectures on Ethnography, vol. i, p. 374.
[229] John Hunter also thought that man was originally black; he had remarked that domestic animals become white by age. Compare White, Account of the regular Gradation of Man, p. 100. Hunter thus confounded men with domestic animals. We have already said what must be thought of this connexion.
[230] Compare Morel, Dégénérescence de l’espèce humaine, p. 5, Paris, 1857.
[231] See above, p. 73.