Sex and Race, Volume 3
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J. A. Rogers. Sex and Race, Volume 3
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Volume III
WHY WHITE AND BLACK MIX IN SPITE OF OPPOSITION
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Caesar’s statement on incest among the ancient Britons reads, “Groups of ten or twelve men have wives together in common and particularly brothers along with brothers and fathers with sons.” (Gallic Wars, Bk. V. 14.)
4 Lappenberg says that the Pope “wishing to set over the Anglo-Saxon bishops a primate devoted to his views, venerable by age and experience and distinguished by his rare knowledge and learning” offered “the dignity to an African, named Hadrian, a monk of Niridano, near Monte Cassino in the kingdom of Naples, who declining the honor for himself, recommended as worthier of it the monk, Theodore, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, a man eminently qualified by his attainments. The recommendation was adopted by the pontiff on condition that Hadrian should accompany the primate to England.” (History of England under the Anglo-Saxons, Vol. 1, p. 172. 1845). To these two men England owed the real beginnings of her culture.
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