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The Pre-Adamite, or Who Tempted Eve?

The Pre-Adamite, or Who Tempted Eve?

Lester, A. Hoyle

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General United States History

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ISBN10: 1151463043
ISBN13: 9781151463043
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.21 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...honest and chaste from principle and not as a matter of policy; and this high and exalted premium can be alone awarded to the Caucasian family. The African and Polynesian explorer, the Oriental traveler, and the Rocky-Mountain trapper, tell us that true virtue is unknown among the aboriginal races. There are isolated cases of chastity among the varied tribes of earth; but it is the exception rather than the rule, and it obtains alone where vengeance hangs like the sword of Damocles in threatening attitude over the wayward victim. Now, throw into this caldron of corruption the blood of the white man, and the progeny derived from the negro becomes a mulatto; intellectually, we admit that the stock is improved, but the virtue of the one has been destroyed by the leaven of the other, and so on ad infinitum as regards all others of the inferior races; so long, at least, as this degenerate taint is visible in feature and formation. If I am not correct in the assumed premises of a want of true virtue in the mongrel races, then tell us why the Eastern harems are guarded by eunuchs and other imbeciles. The thought is father to the deed; and the custom so prevalent in the East, of veiling the females from the gaze of the world and excluding them from male society, is proof positive of a want of confidence in their virtue, and to avoid an exposure to the seductive influences of the artful, which must always prove the victor over the weaker vessel, whose constitutional tendency at best is to stray from the paths of rectitude. Color in the human skin is derived from pigmentcells which are mingled with the ordinary epidermic cells; the former of which secrete a black pigment which bears a close relation with that inky fluid for which the cuttle-fish is so much noted, and...

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