Section 4
I had already discussed the question of race with the botanist at Lucerne.
"But you would not like," he cried in horror, "your daughter to marry a Chinaman or a negro?"
"Of course," said I, "when you say Chinaman, you think of a creature with a pigtail, long nails, and insanitary habits, and when you say negro you think of a filthy-headed, black creature in an old hat. You do this because your imagination is too feeble to disentangle the inherent qualities of a thing from its habitual associations."