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An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human ... - Page 245
by Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1810 - 411 pages
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Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the ..., Volume 1

New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 1082 pages
...physically, but that does not belong immediately to this question and then proceeds : " Comparing them by their faculties of memory reason and imagination,...are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Knrliu...
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Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the ..., Volume 1

New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 1044 pages
...immediately to this question and then proceeds : " Comparing them by their faculties of memoryreason and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they...are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid...
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Anti-slavery Opinions Before the Year 1800: Read Before the Cincinnati ...

William Frederick Poole - History - 1873 - 110 pages
...doubt. He regarded it as highly probable that they could do nothing more. He says : cc Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid"...
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The National Quarterly Review

Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...possessed by Jefferson at Monticello. Mr. Jefferson says in the Notes: " Comparing them (the blacks) by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination,...are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1781-1784

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid...
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Letters and Addresses of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson - Statesmen - 1905 - 334 pages
...whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...me that in memory they are equal to the whites ; in re&son much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the...
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American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 3

Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 694 pages
...think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid ; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. It would be unfair to follow them to Africa for this investigation. We will consider them here, on the same stage with...
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The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3

Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 504 pages
...given life to us in mercy or in wrath, are less felt, and sooner forgotten with them.28 Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid...
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American History Told by Contemporaries ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 706 pages
...whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid...
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The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States

Winthrop D. Jordan - History - 1974 - 260 pages
...than any other single person he framed the terms of the debate still carried on today. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid;...
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