...of philosophy the fundamental identity of [negro] complexion, character, and intellectual capacity": 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...

...his essay, 'Of National Characters' he wrote: 'I am apt to suspect that Negroes, and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different...civilized nation of any other complexion than white.' " Great Irish Famine, 55. 95. Only twice does Mullin make a distinction between anti-Irish and antiblack...

...virtue of their blackness, are precluded from the realm of reason and civilization. As Hume puts it, 'I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to whites. There never was a civilized nation of any complexion than white.' Kant, in agreement with Hume,...

...Character" (1748), which he added between 1753 and 1754: "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. There was never a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent in...

...reason and civilization. Hume proclaimed in a note he added to his essay "Of National Characters" that: "I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all the other species of men, to be generally inferior to whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than...

...It had been nearly a hundred years earlier that Hume had written, in "Of National Characters," that "there never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even of any individual eminent in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them [the Negroes],...

...nationalism with race when he said he had no doubts that 'the Negroes (were) naturally inferior to whites. . . . There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white' (Hume quoted in Kramnick 1995: 629). Approving of Hume's comment. Immanuel Kant writing in 1764 maintained...

...had amended the footnote with care, deleting from the first sentence the phrases 'and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds)', but retaining the rest of the footnote. In this way, Hume retreated from the outright heretical polygenism...

...observation of their technological backwardness. The English philosopher David Hume wrote at the time that: / am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the...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...

...part, Hume understood polygenesis as the biological basis for racial inferiority, famously noting: I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent...