The races of men : A fragment / Robert Knox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knox, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 479, 1 unnumebered pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

races of men

The races of men

Place of Publication:

London : H. Renshaw, 1850.

Summary:

"The "Fragment" I here present to the world has cost me much thought and anxiety, the views it contains being wholly at variance with long-received doctrines, stereotyped prejudices, national delusions, and a physiology and a cosmogony based on a fantastic myth as old at least as the Hebrew record. That human character, individual and national, is traceable solely to the nature of that race to which the individual or nation belongs, is a statement which I know must meet with the severest opposition. It runs counter to nearly all the chronicles of events called histories; it overturns the theories of statesmen, of theologians, of philanthropists of all shades--from the dreamy Essayist whose remedy for every ill that flesh is heir to, is summed up in "the coming man," to the "whitened sepulchres of England," the hard-handed, spatular-fingered Saxon utilitarian, whose best plea for religion, and sound morals, and philanthropy, is "the profitableness thereof"--impostors all! to such the truths in this little work must ever be most unpalatable. Nevertheless, that race in human affairs is everything, is simply a fact, the most remarkable, the most comprehensive, which philosophy has ever announced. Race is everything: literature, science, art--in a word, civilization, depends on it"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

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