Word: generically
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Dates: during 1879-1879
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...thrashing delivered in consequence of the last cartoon) to put in black and white that which until the publication of the said cartoon he had not deemed necessary; id est, that the faces that have appeared and shall appear in these pages have been and shall be generic, not individual portraits; and that, moreover, he sees no reason why, when he depicts an ape, every ape in the community - thank Heaven, their number is very small - should immediately cry out, 'That's my picture' and he also sees less reason why they should thereupon abuse, cuff, and punish him accordingly...