“ The men become caricatures of what physical men ought to be, and their women and children are pale and anæmic, with eyes ringed darkly, who stoop and slouch, and are early twisted out of all shapeliness and beauty. ”
Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1903). copy citation
| Author | Jack London |
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| Source | The People of the Abyss |
| Topic | beauty women |
| Date | 1903 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_People_of_the_Abyss |
Context
“and when the workers are segregated in the Ghetto, they cannot escape the consequent degradation. A short and stunted people is created, a
A Group of Jewish Children. breed strikingly differentiated from their masters' breed, a pavement folk, as it were, lacking stamina and strength. The men become caricatures of what physical men ought to be, and their women and children are pale and anæmic, with eyes ringed darkly, who stoop and slouch, and are early twisted out of all shapeliness and beauty.
To make matters worse, the men of the Ghetto are the men who are left, a deteriorated stock left to undergo still further deterioration. For a hundred and fifty years, at least, they have been drained of their best.”
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