 | Markman Ellis - 2004 - Страниц: 284
...1749). 14 The footnote is worth quoting in full: 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... | |
 | Michael P. T. Leahy - 1996 - Страниц: 288
...essay 'Of National Characters' in 1753 Hume wrote, '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 the whites'. The history of this footnote displays the special contempt Hume reserved for blacks. Under criticism... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - Страниц: 764
..."threatened" by blacks. Consequently we must ask: why did they believe what they did? Here are their views: 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 any civilized nation of any other complexion... | |
 | Gillian M. Bediako - 1997 - Страниц: 418
...Hume expressed very clearly this kind of thinking: 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... | |
 | Aimable Twagilimana - 1997 - Страниц: 204
...as well as an absence of history, memory, and reference. David Hume, among many others, wrote that "There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, not even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufacturers amongst... | |
 | Suman Fernando, David Ndegwa, Melba Wilson - 1998 - Страниц: 310
...philosopher David Hume in 1753 added in a footnote to an essay written in 1748 and quoted by Fryer: 'I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...whites. There never was a civilized nation of any complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious... | |
 | Charles W. Mills - 1998 - Страниц: 280
...self-sufficient, autochthonous, with the contribution of Afro- Asia having been written out of the history books. "There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white," boasts Hume.23 Ancient Greece becomes a self-contained fountainhead of wisdom, removed from its actual... | |
 | Cornel West, Quinton Hosford Dixie - 1999 - Страниц: 286
..."natural" distinctions between peoples in a 1748 essay entitled "Of National Characters," asserting "1 am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any ind1vidual eminent either in action or speculation. . . . Such a uniform and constant difference could... | |
 | Patricia Bradley - 1999 - Страниц: 214
...Testament, Nisbet was unabashedly a writer who believed the white race was inherently superior to the black. "There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor ever any individual eminent in either action or speculation." Africans, Nisbet charged, had produced... | |
 | Robert B. Louden - 2000 - Страниц: 273
...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... | |
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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... 
