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 / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1866
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Credit: 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 / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the circumstances modifying these laws, and the con- sequent easy improvement of families in beauty of forms and excellence of functions. In the Fifth and Sixth Parts are described the vague methods of regulating progeny adopted in the breeding of Domesticated Animals,—in in-and-in, selection and crossing, and the application of the na- tural laws to the breeding of these animals—horses, cattle and sheep. In the Seventh and Eighth Parts are described the vague methods of effecting progeny adopted among Mankind,—in in-and-in, selection and crossing, and the transcendently important subject of choice in inter- marriage, as prescribed by the natural laws, and as calculated to correct each particular defect of the lo- comotive, the vital or nutritive, and the mental or thinking system, that may exist in any family or any individual. It is here perhaps that I should add, to what has now been said, whatever regards my means of accom- plishing this work, and a few further remarks on the chief purpose which I have in -dew therein. To its anthropological views I have long been habi- tuated ; and, for several years, I have carefully ob- served the resemblance and the other relations of pro- geny to parents. Most of the sciences, however, of which man is the subject, have derived such advance- ment from those which regard animals—comparative physiology, has thrown such light on human phys- iology, that, on every thing relating to intermar-