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[Forty] Very frustrating photo today, mainly because Steven looks like he was just pasted onto the background wall. This was not photoshopped! ugh... bummer eh?
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Title: Intermarriage; or, The mode in which and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity from others : demonstrated by delineation of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children-in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, with eight illustrative drawings
Creator: Walker, Alexander
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston
Sponsor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Contributor: Emory University, Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
Date: 1866
Language: eng
Description: Concepts of heredity played a powerful role in structuring 19th-century debates over disease, sexuality, morality, class, race, intellect, gender, and evolution. Walker is also the author of Beauty: Illustrated chiefly by an analysis and classification of beauty in women (1836) and Women physiologically considered as to minds, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity, and divorce (1839)
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Gift to The Abner Wellborn Calhoun Medical Library presented by Dr. F.P. Calhoun, September 11, 1942
HEALTH: Added as part of 2008 Rare Book Project
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"across the gulf of space, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded our planet with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us"
In the British Library's 'Out of This World' exhibition, a tripod menaces the crowd
From the British Library's 'Out of This World' exhibition - how science fiction has influenced scientific discovery.
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
H P Lovecraft - The Tomb
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'Intellects of the first rank are always concerned with fashioning and interpreting themselves and their surroundings as free, nature-wild, arbitrary, fantastic, confusing and suprising..'
-Nietzsche-