 | Richard Henry Popkin - Philosophy - 1992 - 394 pages
...discussed the evidence that the blacks were mentally inferior to the whites, concluding, "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination,...are equal to the whites: in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid:... | |
 | Frank Shuffelton - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 295 pages
...that all men are created equal are dismayed that he could also proclaim of black men, 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;... | |
 | Alan Gallay - History - 1994 - 440 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;... | |
 | Matthew Holden, Jr. - Social Science - 1995 - 344 pages
...mimicked the "antient' s" construction of doctrines supportive of a racial order: Comparing [blacks] by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior. . . . Many millions of them have been brought to, and born in America. . . . Some have been liberally... | |
 | Steven Fraser - Social Science - 2008 - 230 pages
...offer a full-blown defense of slavery, Jefferson simply recorded his observations: "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 tracking and comprehending the investigations of... | |
 | Walter G. Secada, Elizabeth Fennema, Lisa Byrd Adajian - Education - 1995 - 380 pages
...national mathematics assessment: Are we creating a national toll road? William Tate Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they [blacks] are equal to the whites; in reason, much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found... | |
 | Wilma King - History - 1997 - 284 pages
...those who accomplished what some believed was beyond their mental capacities. "Comparing them [ blacks] by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me," wrote Thomas Jefferson, "that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior." Remarking... | |
 | Markman Ellis - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 284 pages
...protested that there were 'physical and moral' objections to African enfranchisement. 'Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination,...imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.' Reading Sancho's Letters, Jefferson admired his sentimental mode: his letters are more honour to the... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...Notes on Virginia. Regarding the intellectual capacities of black people, he wrote: Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous. . . . Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration,... | |
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Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, 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... 
