To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony — disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities and this means also .disharmony with environment. A hybridized people are a badly put together people and a dissatisfied, restless,... International Journal of Orthodontia - Page 3281924Full view - About this book
| American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1917 - 828 pages
...with his lot and a nuisance to others. To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony — disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities...insanity is due to mental and temperamental friction. This country is in for hybridization on the greatest scale that the world has ever seen. May we predict... | |
| Medicine - 1917 - 468 pages
...Philosophical Society last April: To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony—disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities and...insanity is due to mental and temperamental friction. This country is in for hybridization on the greatest scale that the world has ever seen. May we predict... | |
| Michael Frederic Guyer - Eugenics - 1927 - 558 pages
...his lot and a nuisance to others. "To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony • — disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities...people. One wonders how much of the exceptionally high death-rate in middle life in this country is due to such bodily maladjustments ; and how much of our... | |
| Michael Frederic Guyer - Eugenics - 1927 - 590 pages
...his lot and a nuisance to others. "To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony - — disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities...people. One wonders how much of the exceptionally high death-rate in middle life in this country is due to such bodily maladjustments; and how much of our... | |
| Eugenics - 1917 - 218 pages
...harmoniously adjusted to each other." " To sum up, then, miscegenation commonly spells disharmony — disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities,...and this means also disharmony with environment. A hy14 EUGENICAL NEWS 15 bridized people are a badly put together people and a dissatisfied, restless,... | |
| Elazar Barkan - History - 1992 - 400 pages
...data, but predated the study. In 1917, Davenport wrote that "miscegenation commonly spells disharmony - disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities - and this means also disharmony with environment."58 By disharmony, Davenport meant in principle, a statistical deviation, but in practice... | |
| Laura Doyle - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 288 pages
...black-white segregation. Davenport claimed that "miscegenation commonly spells disharmony" in that "a hybridized people are a badly put together people...and a dissatisfied, restless, ineffective people." 31 In The Passing of the Great Race—a book which the journal Science pronounced "of solid merit"... | |
| David Palumbo-Liu - Social Science - 1999 - 522 pages
..."miscegenation commonly spells disharmony — disharmony of physical, mental, and temperamental qualities. ... A hybridized people are a badly put together people and a dissatisfied, restless, ineffective people."21 The connection between such beliefs and political discourse, between the local and the national,... | |
| Siobhan B. Somerville - Culture in motion pictures - 2000 - 276 pages
..."miscegenation commonly spells disharmony— disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities. ... A hybridized people are a badly put together people and a dissatisfied, restless, ineffective people."6o The mulatto, as an embodiment of the object of eugenist efforts, also became an important,... | |
| Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe - Social Science - 2004 - 362 pages
...dissatisfied with his lot and a nuisance to others." In short, "miscegenation commonly spells disharmony - disharmony of physical, mental and temperamental qualities...and a dissatisfied, restless, ineffective people" (pp. 366—367). Davenport did not argue in this paper that all race crossing should be stopped in... | |
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