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wildcat2030:

…At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Prof. Schaaffhause has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. - The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex, Volume 1 – by Charles Darwin (via Human Races May Have Biological Meaning, But Races Mean Nothing About Humanity | The Crux | Discover Magazine)

Reblogged from A Momentary Flow

centuriespast:

Plate 17: the whore of Babylon, sitting on the seven-headed beast, admired by the kings of the earth, while in the background, Babylon is burning; tablet-shaped format. c.1546/55

Print made by Jean Duvet

The British Museum

Reblogged from C.P.