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...Montagu, of Hahnemann Medical College, who looks like Harold Lloyd and has nuisance value among anthropologists because of his irritating lectures, was in fine, irritating fettle. He shocked his colleagues by declaring the whole concept of race to be "utterly erroneous and meaningless." He declared that early naturalists like Linnaeus and Buffon first tried to squeeze mankind into races according to complexion and other superficial traits, but anthropologists must now open their minds to the later discovery of genetic laws: Then the many differences among human groups will appear only as mutations within a single species. "Race" might perhaps have...
...prizes from the West Indies station during the American Revolution, he shipped on a slaver, he was captured by the Mounseers (on that occasion contriving to be the only man ever guillotined at the knee). His modest knowledge of physic was of assistance to the great Franklin, the great Linnaeus, and Catherine the Great, who conceived a dangerous gratitude for him after he removed her stone...
...medieval schoolmen was Aristotle; when herbalists began to list plants unmentioned by him, Aristotle's omniscience was first challenged. The first microscopists - Malpighi, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek-added their heretical testimony. With Buffon and Reaumur, 18th Century France temporarily captured the blue ribbon of Science. Then Sweden's Linnaeus revolutionized the study of nature by his field-trip to Lapland, gave the world the Linnaean system, the first great attempt to classify plants. The unconsidered Lamarck, with his theory of ''the inheritance of acquired characteristics," was the forerunner of the evolutionists...
...Metallica, and these will be brought out for the benefit of the public. One of Mercator's early atlases, will be included. From the seventeenth century, works by Galileo, Kepler, Napier, Pascal, and Newton have been chosen; and from the eighteenth, Priestly, Cuvier, Lamarck, Laplace and Linnaeus...
Cinema? "Development must come from the centre, not from the periphery." Nobel Prizes? "The prize-winners are like the modest hotels in Baedeker -'well spoken of: " American "hustle"? "George [Washington] did not run around like a mouse in oxygen as the modern American does." Sex in literature ? "When Linnaeus first wrote on the fertilization of plants, botany was denounced as corrupting to morals. . . . If a man holds up a mirror to your nature and shows you that it needs washing-not white-washing-it is no use breaking the mirror. Go for soap and water." Alleged pro-Germanism...