...evaluation in his essay "Of National Characters," where he confides: I am apt to suspect the negroes ... to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...civilized nation of any other complexion than white, or even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. ... In Jamaica, indeed they talk of...

...25:xlix. 82. Hume begins a long footnote in his essay "Of National Characters" with the following: 1 am apt to suspect the Negroes. and in general all the other species of men tfor there are four or five different kindsl to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was...

...both sides of the North Atlantic. As the noted Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume stated, "I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (quoted in Callinicos 1993, 24). In a similar vein, Thomas Jefferson pronounced, "[T]he blacks, whether...

...quite as rational as evervone else. Sometimes this view was made explicit. David Hume wrote in i74a, I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all...men (for there are four or five different kinds) to he naturally infenor to the whites. There never was a clvilized nation of any other complexion than...

...developed in a way that presented Africans as no better than animals: I am apt to suspect the negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no science.7 Hegel, even...

...distinguish both from the European and the human: I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different...naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civiliz'd nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action...

...Hume and Emmanuel Kant. In 1748, Hume wrote that he was apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different...naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilised nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent in action or speculation....

...David Hume, who claimed in a notorious footnote: I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different...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...

...ideal. David Hume, in his essay "Of National Characters," wrote, "I am apt to suspect the negroes ... to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor any individual eminent in action or speculation." (Interestingly, one of the only intellectuals of...

...controversial essay, "Of National Characters" (1748): "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual...