This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... The Jew is a Semite, he belongs to a strange, noxious, disturbing and inferior race--such is the ethnologic grievance of the antisemites. What does it rest upon? It rests upon an anthropological theory which had given rise or at least justification to an historical theory: the doctrine of the inequality of races, of which we must speak first of all. Since the eighteenth century attempts have been made to classify men and distribute them under well-defined, distinct and separate categories. As a basis for it quite different indices were taken: the section of the hair-- oval section for negroes with woolly hair, or round section;1 the shape of the skull--broad or elongated;2 the color of the skin. This last classification has prevailed: nowadays three races of mankind--the negro, the yellow, and the white race--are distinguished. Different aptitudes are ascribed to these races, and they are arranged in the order of their superiority in a ladder of which the negro race occupies the lowest and the white race the highest round. Similarly, in order to account still better for this hierarchy of the human races, the religious doctrine of monogenism, which declares that mankind has descended from a single couple,--is rejected, and against it is set up polygenism which admits of the simultaneous appearance of numerous different couples,--a more logical and rational conception and more in keeping with reality. Has this classification any serious and actual bases? Does the belief in monogenism or in polygenism allow of 1 Ulotrichi and Leiotrichi. * Brachyciphals and Dolichocephals. asserting that there are elect and reprobate races? Not by any means. If raonogenism is accepted, it is evident that men, as descendants of one common pair, possess the...
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