 | James Newton Poling - 1996 - 246 páginas
...of slavery. For example, he agonized over whether Africans were equal to Europeans in intelligence. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason,...Euclid,- and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous. . . . [Njever yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of... | |
 | Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann - 1998 - 200 páginas
...eager desire, than a tender delicate mixture of sentiment and sensation. Their griefs are transient."15 Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason,...and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. . . . [Among African-Americans] some have been liberally educated, and all have lived... | |
 | Conor Cruise O'Brien - 1996 - 390 páginas
...capacity. More 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 that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. It would be unfair to follow them to Africa for this investigation. We will consider... | |
 | Henri Grégoire, Graham Russell Hodges - 1997 - 178 páginas
...laws. Writing in Paris in the mid- 1780s, the future president reflected: "Comparing them [blacks] by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination,...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... | |
 | Markman Ellis - 2004 - 284 páginas
...slavery, but protested that there were 'physical and moral' objections to African enfranchisement. 'Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason...they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior . . . and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.' Reading Sancho's Letters, Jefferson... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 páginas
...conclusions in his Notes on Virginia. Regarding the intellectual capacities of black people, he wrote: Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason,...they are equal to the whites, in reason much inferior . . . and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous. . . . Never yet could I find... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 páginas
...whites. "In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than 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... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - 1997 - 608 páginas
...labor. An animal 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 that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. It would be unfair to follow them to Africa for this investigation. We will consider... | |
 | Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic - 1997 - 710 páginas
...upon his views and offer a full-blown defense of slavery, Jefferson simply recorded his observations: "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason,...as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracking and comprehending the investigations of Euclid, and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless,... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1997 - 270 páginas
...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...think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing the investigations of Euclid, and that in imagination they are dull tasteless and anomalous."10 Whatever... | |
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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... 
