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In such an age, man being softer and more pliable, deeper race-marks would be more easily inscribed and would be more likely to continue legible.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “In such an age, man being softer and more pliable, deeper race-marks would be more easily inscribed and would be more…”
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He suggests that in earlier times, human traits were more easily shaped and passed down.
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It is natural that those who by special and admirable culture have come to look at all things upon the artistic side, should start back from these queer peculiarities.
Our law very often reminds one of those outskirts of cities where you cannot for a long time tell how the streets come to wind about in so capricious and serpent-like a manner.
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