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For questions please e-mail us: info@voyager-press.comPhone toll-free 1-888-656-2006 You are bidding on the following: Author: MITCHELL, Arthur Title: Blood Relationship in Marriage Considered in its Influence upon the Offspring. Publisher: London: Anthropological Society, 1860. Notes: This is an exceptional report on blood relationship in marriage considered in its influence upon the offspring. Excerpt: "The voice of the people in this country, whatever its practice may do, condemns blood-alliances, and declares them to be products of evil. Educated and uneducated may be said to entertain this belief equally; and as everyone has considerable opportunities of testing its accuracy by personal observation and experience, the probability of its being simply and wholly a traditional error becomes small. Even among professional men, there is scarcely less unanimity in this general condemnation. But their wider knowledge and habits of closer observation lead often to qualifications and doubts; while occasionally we find an investigator wholly denying the evil, and characterising the dread of such unions as a superstitious fear..." For More ANTHROPOLOGY items click here Condition: 51 pages. Paper is in Excellent Condition, Attractively bound in blue paper covers with label.
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