Morton, Samuel

Samuel Morton, Crania Americana A Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Natives of North and South America, to which Is Prefixed an Essay on the Variety of Human Species (Philadelphia J. Dobson, 1839), p. 5 Arthur Comte de Gobineau, The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races with Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence on the Civil and Political History of Mankind (Philadelphia Lippincott, 1856), p. 439 Arthur Comte de Gobineau, Essay on the Inequality of Human Races, in Michael Bediss, ed., Selected Political Writings (New York Harper and Row, 1970), p. 136. 

Ruth Benedict, Race Science and Politics [1940] (Westport Greenwood, 1982), p. 126 Samuel Morton, Crania Americana (Philadelphia J. Dobson, 1839), p. 16 Gobineau, Inequality of the Human Races, p. 73, emphasis added Theodore Parker, The Aspect of Slavery in America [1858], Saint Bernard and Other Papers (Boston American Unitarian Association, 1911), pp. 271, 280, 276-277. 

Resonance Spectroscopy Bodansky, Oscar, see Schwartz, Morton K. Bossenmaier, Irene, see Schwartz, Samuel Bosshard, Hans Rudolf, Mapping of Contact Areas in Protein-Nucleic Acid 31 259... 

We acknowledge our indebtedness to Allan Campbell. Peter Ghosh. George Feigen, Morton Klein. Samuel Klein. Onno Meier, and Douglas Rotman for stimulating discussions and correspondence. We thank Ruth Reynolds. Anita Maclaren, Dorothy Munro. and Lynne Wilcox for theirhelp. 

All stories have a finite storyteller who tells the story to other finite minds. All are incomplete and (consciously or not) edited by politics. In the nineteenth century a physician named Samuel George Morton collected and measured a thousand human skulls. From these, he concluded that different races had significantly different cranial dimensions. 

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