Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . The peculiarity of theskin is its transparencyand the consequent rev-elation of the blood inthe capillaries. The redtinge of the blood isthus discerniblethrough the cuticle, andthe flush of color, slight-er or more emphatic, isalways ruddy in its char-acter. The peoples hav-ing this quality of skinare the blushing- every varying de-gree of excitement theblood appears or re-cedes in the skin at thesurface, giving a dee
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . The peculiarity of theskin is its transparencyand the consequent rev-elation of the blood inthe capillaries. The redtinge of the blood isthus discerniblethrough the cuticle, andthe flush of color, slight-er or more emphatic, isalways ruddy in its char-acter. The peoples hav-ing this quality of skinare the blushing- every varying de-gree of excitement theblood appears or re-cedes in the skin at thesurface, giving a deeperor paler tinge to thebody. But under noconditions can the skin be said to bewhite. The fairest in-ever born into the, even when bloodlessand cold in death, is so far from beingwhite that a really white object placedalongside of the skin furnishes a con-trast so striking as at once and forever to disabuse the judgment of the be-holder. The term white, therefore, asone of the definitive epithets descriptiveof the color of the human race, must berejected, and its place be taken with themore accurate term ruddy. We thushave in a scientific classification of man-.
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