 | James Newton Poling - Social Science - 1996 - 246 pages
...example, he agonized over whether Africans were equal to Europeans in intelligence. 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,-... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 404 pages
...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;... | |
 | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann - Philosophy - 1998 - 200 pages
...a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient."15 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;... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 390 pages
...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;... | |
 | Henri Grégoire, Graham Russell Hodges - History - 1997 - 178 pages
...laws. Writing in Paris in the mid- 1780s, the future president reflected: "Comparing them [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;... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - Philosophy - 1996 - 764 pages
...reflection. . . . Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination, it appears to be 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,... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 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;... | |
 | Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic - Social Science - 1997 - 710 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... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - Political Science - 1997 - 270 pages
...universal liberty. "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination," Jefferson said, "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 the investigations of Euclid, and that in... | |
 | Gerald Robert Vizenor - Social Science - 2000 - 254 pages
...that "their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection," and, comparing "them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior." He would, however, advance a contentious proposition to emancipate slaves. "Some have been liberally... | |
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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... 
