Character Analysis by the Observational Method
by Katherine Melvina Huntsinger Blackford (9781459063419)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LESSON TWO COLOR All angels are blondes?according to artists. In the paintings and pottery of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and Spain, divinity, royalty, nobility and aristocracy are often represented by white skin, blue eyes and flaxen hair. Popular Attitude Toward Blondness.?Poems and songs of love in ancient and modern tongues sing the charms of the snowy neck, rosy cheeks, azure eyes, alabaster brow, shell-pink ears, golden hair and lily fingers. On the stage, heroes and heroines, the good and lovely in general are usually blondes?villains, criminals and slaves, brunets. Our common speech is full of such expressions as, " That man is white "?indicating nobility of character or fairness and justice; "He treated me mighty white "?with the same signification. We also speak of women as being " divinely fair," and blue-eyed and beauty are used in some connections almost synonymously. Until very recently, most dolls had blue eyes and yellow hair, even in countries where their little mothers were as brown as berries. There are other interesting and significant evidences of an age-old feeling amounting almost to instinct that there are differences in character betweenblondes and brunets as marked as their differences in color. Whenever I mention blondes and brunets in public the response is immediate. The newspapers frequently take up what I say and make a sensation of it. More than one garbled report of a scientific statement has been copied by the press far and wide. There is no variable among human beings so striking as that of color?none so easily observable?an 1 none which has made so strong an appeal to scientific investigators as well as to popular imagination. EVOLUTION OF WHITE MEN An inquiry into the biological cause of variation in human co...

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