Dumas, Alexander

The one drop advocates should be told that they have no right to commit racial or ethnic rape, telling others that they will be taken against their wiU. They have no right to rape either the living or the dead— blackening the names of people who were not black and never claimed to be (Jean Toomer, Alexander Dumas, Alexander Pushkin and numerous others... 

In his series of novels Joseph Balsamo, Memoirs of a Doctor, Alexander Dumas compounded the excesses already associated with the chemist when his protagonist combines hypnosis with chemistry to allow him to manipulate his victims minds. Overall, the image that persists in the popular imagination is one of mystical alchemy rather than modern chemistry, even though over the course of the twentieth century chemistry has established itself as a respectable scientific department in most modem universities. In novels, chemistry is almost always represented as a strange, foreign science, with its origins in distant lands, whose importation into our society serves only to destabilize it. While other collective sciences are sometimes... 

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