Antedating of "Racial"

[Wilson Gray]

Well, one can't disagree with that, I wot.

-Wilson

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Shapiro, Fred<fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> racial (OED3 1855)
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> 1854 _Leisure Hour_ Oct. 678 (Chadwyck Healey British Periodicals)  Such extremes have always been characteristic of the barbarous northmen, and we may not be wrong in referring to racial causes for the solution of this prolem of contrarieties otherwise inexplicable.
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