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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

"Sexual Selection In Man"

With
this feeling may perhaps be associated the feeling, certainly very widely
felt, that one would not like to marry a person of foreign, even though
closely allied, race.
From the same number of the _Round-About_ from which I have
extracted the data on stature, I have obtained corresponding data
on pigmentation, and have embodied them in the following table.
They are likewise very scanty, but they probably furnish as good
a general indication of the drift of ideals in this matter as we
should obtain from more extensive data of the same character.
WOMEN. MEN. TOTALS.
Fair women seek fair men. 2 Fair men seek fair women 2 4
Dark woman seeks dark man 1 Dark men seek dark women 7 8
Seek parity.......... 3 Seek parity......... 9 12
Fair women seek dark men. 4 Fair men seek dark women 3 7
Dark woman seeks fair man 1 Dark men seek fair women 4 5
Medium-colored man seeks
Seek disparity....... 5 dark woman ........... 1 1
Medium-colored man seeks
fair woman ........... 1 1
Seek disparity.


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