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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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