 | Errol G. Hill, James V. Hatch - 2003 - Страниц: 652
...civilizations of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, as well as traditional African arts and letters, could write: "There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white nor even any individual eminent in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences."" More than... | |
 | Ronald M. Radano - 2003 - Страниц: 438
...claim, Thunberg echoes David Hume's famous challenge in his essay "Of National Characters" (1748). "I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men ... to be naturally inferior to the whites," Hume writes. "No ingenious manufactures amongst them,... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - Страниц: 494
...believed to be a God-given hierarchy oi nature isee p. 302i. David Hume reilected in a iootnote: Ч am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species oi men IIor there are iour or five dilierent kindsi to be naturally inierior to the whites. There never... | |
 | Paul Gordon Lauren - 2003 - Страниц: 418
...nations. Negroes are thus slaves of other men."11- Wrote the noted British philosopher David Hume, "1 am apt to suspect the Negroes and in general all the other species . . . to be naturally inferior to the whites."115 Given this long and difficult historical context... | |
 | Clarence Sholé Johnson - 2003 - Страниц: 250
...revision of the essay "Of National Characters," Hume makes a negligible modification to the sentence, "There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white . . ." by replacing the word "never" with the phrase "scarcely ever," so that the revised sentence... | |
 | Merete Falck Borch - 2004 - Страниц: 346
...other physical traits were indications of innate characteristics; thus Hume had stated in 1754 that I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all...complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.147 It is characteristic... | |
 | Patricia Fara - 2003 - Страниц: 188
...science. 95 • CHAPTER 5 • EXOTICISM AND EROTICISM / am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different...complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent in either action or speculation ... On the other hand, the most rude and barbarous of the white, such... | |
 | Donald Eugene Hall - 2004 - Страниц: 158
...concerning philosophy's ability to pronounce any universal truths, did venture the following pronouncement: "I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all...five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to whites" (cit. Gates 1985a: 10). Kant, Gates goes on to demonstrate, was in fact "one of the earliest... | |
 | Benjamin Isaac - 2004 - Страниц: 596
...and Strabo, among others. Buffon's contemporary David Hume (1711-1776) expressed the view (1748) that "the Negroes, and in general all the other species...of men (for there are four or five different kinds) [are] naturally inferior to the whites." Later he repeats again that "nature made an original distinction... | |
 | Merete Falck Borch - 2004 - Страниц: 340
...other physical traits were indications of innate characteristics; thus Hume had stated in t754 that I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all the other species of men t for there are four or five different kinds) to he 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... 
