 | Michael A. Gomez, Michael Gomez - History - 2005 - 250 pages
...general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection . . . 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;... | |
 | Robert Jensen - Education - 2005 - 124 pages
...present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites." • "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;... | |
 | Joe R. Feagin - Oppression (Psychology). - 2006 - 388 pages
...the white racial frame. He argues that they are very inferior in key human qualities: "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous."24 Here we see the hoary stereotype of African Americans as less intelligent and creative... | |
 | Darryl Scriven - African American abolitionists - 2007 - 208 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;... | |
 | Jeannine Marie DeLombard - History - 2009 - 344 pages
...inferiority. "Comparing [blacks] by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination," Jefferson finds "that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior," and "in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous"; thus, like animals, "their existence appears... | |
 | Ned Sublette - History - 2008 - 368 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;... | |
 | Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 236 pages
...supposed African inferiority on empirical observation and comparison with Europeans: Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination...appears to me that in memory they are equal to the white; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending... | |
 | Akinyi von K'Orinda-Yimbo - History - 2007 - 256 pages
...circumstances and education naturally produce."51 Come 1787, Thomas Jefferson himself wrote, "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;... | |
 | Martin B. Duberman - African Americans - 1964 - 74 pages
...forgotten with them. In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. 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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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... 
