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Walter Bagehot: And there is, therefore, a strong presumption that (as great authorities now hold) these differences were created before…

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And there is, therefore, a strong presumption that (as great authorities now hold) these differences were created before the nature of men, especially before the mind and the adaptive nature of men had taken their existing constitution.
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Walter Bagehot

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Bagehot suggests that the significant differences among races were established before the current human nature developed.

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