![]() He also held that the Celt was closely related to Cromagnon man, who was, in turn, "Africanoid." 8 Seventy years later, in 1934, G. John Beddoe, sometime President of the Anthropological Institute (1889-1891), wrote in his monumental an authoritative Races of Britain published in 1862, that all men of superior race were orthognathous - had less prominent jaw bones-, while the Irish and the Welsh were prognathous. Charles Kingsley, author of The Water Babies, famously wrote from Ireland in 1860: “I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country.to see white chimpanzees is dreadful if they were black, one would not see it so much, but their skins.are as white as ours.” In the dominant English imaginary, the Irish were indeed seen as black. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards the scientific evolutionary debate in Britain saw scientifically justified racists frequently comparing Irish people to monkeys.
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