An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species. : To which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's discourse, on the original diversity of mankind. /
Smith, Samuel Stanhope,1750-1819.
American Philosophical Society.
Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, Market Street.,
M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]
Smith was the first Princeton alumnus to hold the office of President of the college and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1785. In the "Essay" he attempted to show that physical variety in the human species was due to natural environmental causes, particularly climate, and dismissed the polygenist argument that each of the different races of man had sprung from their own stock.
"The substance of the following essay was delivered in the annual oration, before the Philosophical Society in Philadelephia, February 28th, 1787.--And the whole is published at the request of the society."--page [3].
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Smith was the first Princeton alumnus to hold the office of President of the college and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1785. In the "Essay" he attempted to show that physical variety in the human species was due to natural environmental causes, particularly climate, and dismissed the polygenist argument that each of the different races of man had sprung from their own stock.
Kames, Henry Home, Lord, 1696-1782.
Human skin color
Monogenism and polygenism
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.