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The Natural History of the Varieties of Man

by Robert Gordon Latham

2019-06-13 22:18:49

If the simple excellence of a book was a sufficient reason for making it the only one belonging to the sciences which it professed to illustrate, few writers would be desirous of attempting a systematic work upon the Natural History of their species, ... Read more
If the simple excellence of a book was a sufficient reason for making it the only one belonging to the sciences which it professed to illustrate, few writers would be desirous of attempting a systematic work upon the Natural History of their species, after the admirable Physical History of Mankind, by the late and lamented Dr. Prichard,a work which even those who are most willing to defer to the supposed superior attainments of Continental scholars, are not afraid to place on an unapproached eminence in respect to both our own and other countries. The fact of its being the production of one who was at one and the same time a physiologist amongst physiologists, and a scholar amongst scholars, would have made it this; since the grand ethnological desideratum required at the time of its publication, was a work which, by combining the historical, the philological, and the anatomical methods, should command the attention of the naturalist, as well as of the scholar. Less

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File size1559.173 KB
Print pages558
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2019-03-26
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1230000287768
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Robert Gordon Latham
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Robert Gordon Latham FRS (24 March 1812 – 9 March 1888) was an English ethnologist and philologist.The eldest son of Thomas Latham, vicar of Billingborough, Lincolnshire, he was born there on 24 Mar...

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