Bayard Taylor
American poet, travel author, and diplomat
Lived from: 1825 - 1878
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United States
Born: 11 january 1825 Died: 19 december 1878
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
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