 | Bruce Alden Cox, Jacques M. Chevalier, Valda Blundell - 1989 - Страниц: 174
..."civilized" as a species distinction: I am apt to suspect negroes, and in general all other species (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites ...No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences. On the other hand, the most rude and... | |
 | Henry Louis Gates Jr. - 1993 - Страниц: 220
...identity of complexion, character, and intellectual capacity. "I am apt to suspect the negroes," he wrote, and in general all the other species of men (for there...never was a civilized nation of any other complexion that white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufacturers... | |
 | Jan Nederveen Pieterse - 1992 - Страниц: 264
...of human beings. It was pointedly formulated by David Hume (171176) in a frequently cited passage: I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all...men (for there are four or five different kinds) to he naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than... | |
 | David Campbell - 1992 - Страниц: 280
...David Hume who enunciated an argument that repeated a refrain common to accounts of the Amerindians: 'I am apt to suspect the Negroes and in general all the other species of men ... .to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion... | |
 | Ronald A. T. Judy - 1993 - Страниц: 372
...National Characters," Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 4 vols. (Basel: JJ Toumeissen, 1793): "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men ... to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion... | |
 | Bat-Ami Bar On - 1994 - Страниц: 302
...interpretation of Hume is a very generous one. For Hume says, for example (in "Of National Characters"): "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men ... to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion... | |
 | Larry Wolff - 1994 - Страниц: 444
...Hume declared himself "apt to suspect" that blacks were "naturally inferior to whites." He thought "there never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white," and that even "the most rude and barbarous of the whites, such as the ancient GERMANS, the present... | |
 | Asa G. Hilliard - 1995 - Страниц: 260
...by time and circumstance, are inferior to the Whites in the endowments of both body and mind.s David Hume advocated both the separate creation and innate...kinds) to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There was never a civilized nation of any other complexion than White, nor even any individual eminent either... | |
 | Ronald Segal - 1996 - Страниц: 498
...anything for certain. This did not, however, preclude him from arguing for a natural white superiority. I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilised nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action... | |
 | Robyn Wiegman - 1995 - Страниц: 284
...chapter 6. 19. Gossett, Race 39. 20. In "Of National Characters," David Hume writes, for instance, that "[t]here never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white. . . . No ingenious manufacturers among them, no arts, no sciences" (3:252n1). And of the Jamaican poet,... | |
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I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual... 
