Image: Scientific racism irish

Description: An illustration from the H. Strickland Constable's Ireland from One or Two Neglected Points of View shows an alleged similarity between "Irish Iberian" and "Negro" features in contrast to the higher "Anglo-Teutonic." The accompanying caption reads "The Iberians are believed to have been originally an African race, who thousands of years ago spread themselves through Spain over Western Europe. Their remains are found in the barrows, or burying places, in sundry parts of these countries. The skulls are of low prognathous type. They came to Ireland and mixed with the natives of the South and West, who themselves are supposed to have been of low type and descendants of savages of the Stone Age, who, in consequence of isolation from the rest of the world, had never been out-competed in the healthy struggle of life, and thus made way, according to the laws of nature, for superior races."
Title: Scientific racism irish
Credit: [1] Drawing by: H. Strickland Constable. 1899, Ireland from One or Two Neglected Points of View see here http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/unit_2.html
Author: H. Strickland Constable
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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