These molecular changes were transmitted to the cerebral cells of progeny, became, in short,
racial memories.
Though the Britons were conquered and chiefly supplanted later on by the Anglo-Saxons, enough of them, as we shall see, were spared and intermarried with the victors to transmit something of their
racial qualities to the English nation and literature.
It is a power that is partly
racial and partly individual: a power impregnated with some mysterious quality, partly hypnotic, partly mesmeric, which seems to take away from eyes that meet them all power of resistance--nay, all power of wishing to resist.
Talu gave us careful directions for the journey to Kadabra, the capital city of the Okar nation, which is the
racial name of the yellow men.
"Do fingerprints show
racial characteristics?" he asked.
"There is no reason why we should carry our
racial and political hatreds into Caprona," I insisted.
In his great work on Divergent Lines of
Racial Evolution , the learned Professor Brayfugle argues from the prevalence of this gesture -- the shrug -- among Frenchmen, that they are descended from turtles and it is simply a survival of the habit of retracing the head inside the shell.
It is only when he insists upon being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a
racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.
Then, when we rid ourselves of prejudice, or
racial feeling, and look facts in the face, we must acknowledge that, notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe.
He was gruff, as became his
racial superiority, but not unfriendly.
That gentleman ripped it up with a
racial impatience, and rapidly read the following:
In North America the southern states, after some terrible
racial rioting, had succumbed to the poison.