| Richard R. Valencia - 1997 - 292 páginas
...imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to whites: in reason, much inferior, as 1 think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing...Euclid: and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous ,,, The Indians will astonish you with strokes of the most sublime oratory: such as prove... | |
| Charles Harris Wesley - 1997 - 338 páginas
...intellectually inferior to the whites in reasoning but in memory he was equal to the whites. He wrote, "I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigation of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous.""1 He declared,... | |
| Willie Lee Nichols Rose - 1999 - 558 páginas
...labour. 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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 páginas
...labour. 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... | |
| Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf - 1999 - 300 páginas
...labour. 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... | |
| Dan Ben-Amos, Liliane Weissberg - 1999 - 340 páginas
...the "physical and moral" attributes of blacks against those of whites as follows: In general . . . Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason,...the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one 246 could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and... | |
| Arnold Rogow - 1999 - 374 páginas
...forethought, which prevents their seeing a danger till it be present . . . their griefs are transient ... In memory they are equal to the whites; in reason...of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid."4o In contrast, Hamilton in his letter to Jay argued that giving slaves "their freedom with... | |
| Anthony F. C. Wallace, University Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Anthony F C Wallace - 2009 - 410 páginas
...white society, according to Jefferson, was their inferiority in mental faculties. They were, he felt, "in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely...tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid." In art and oratory, they stood far below the Indians, and although gifted in music, were incapable... | |
| Norm Ledgin - 2000 - 284 páginas
...reinforce them, even at risk to his or her otherwise grand powers for logic and reasoning. Moving on — 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... | |
| Chunchang Gao - 2000 - 340 páginas
...it be present . . . Comparing them by their faculties of memory. reason. and imagmation. il appear to me. that in memory they are equal to the whites: in reason much inferior ... In music they are more generally gifted than the whites with accurate ears for tune and time. and... | |
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