Annotations of “Race Amalgamation,” (pg. 76-)
- Frederick L. Hoffman was born in Varel, Germany.
- Hoffman immigrated into the United States in 1884.
- He began a career in the insurance industry in 1887.
- Hoffman was a very well respected man by the people. He received a gold medal for the prudential exhibit Insurance Methods and Results at the 1904 St. Louis International Exposition.
- Hoffman faults the “great attempts at world bettering” that ignored studies of “racial traits and tendencies” A “vast sum of evil consequences,” he warns, is the “natural result of misapplied energy and misdirected human effort.”
- Today Hoffman’s statistics themselves look foolish to most scientists.
- Of the original African type few traces remain, and the race is largely a cross between the African and the white male.
- Gobineau maintains that intermixture of different races leads to final extinction of civilization.
Annotations of TMM (pg. 92-104):
- Morton’s friend and fellow polygenist George Gliddon was United States consul for the city of Cairo. He dispatched to Phila-delphia more than one hundred skulls from tombs of ancient Egypt, and Morton responded with his second major treatise, the Crania Aegyptiaca of 1844.
- Many of the Egyptian skulls came with mummified remains of their possessors (Fig. 2.6), and Morton could record their sex unam-biguously.
- Morton’s burgeoning collection included 623 skulls when he presented his final tabulation in 1849—an overwhelming affirma-tion of the ranking that every Anglo-Saxon expected.
- Among nonpolygenist, “scientific” defenses of slavery, no argu-ments ever matched in absurdity the doctrines of S. A. Cartwright, a prominent Southern physician.
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