"Food is extremely precarious in the hunter-state; sometimes superabounding with little fatigue, sometimes failing after great fatigue. A savage, like other animals of prey, has a stomach adjusted to that variety: he can bear a long fast; and gorges voraciously when he has plenty, without being the worse for it. Whence it is, that barbarians, who have scarce any sense of decency, are great and gross feeders. ... Barbarians are equally addicted to drunkenness; and peculiarly fond of spirituous liquors."
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, Sketches of the History of Man, 2nd ed., Vol. 2 (1778), pp. 109–110
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Scientific racism
or biological racism, referred to by its supporters as racialism, race realism, or race science, is the unsubstantiated belief that the can be subdivided into biologically distinct called races, and that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racial differences or discrimination. Before the mid-20th century, scientific racism was accepted throughout the scientific community, but is now rejected by the modern scientific consensus.
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