...Great Britain in the 1790s, and John Calhoun in America inthe1830's. I am apt to suspect the negroes all the other species of men (for there are four or...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...

...claimed that dark-skinned people were of a different, and inferior, species: "I am apt to suspect that Negroes and in general all the other species of men...five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to whites." Reading Hume, you see one strand in the idea of race fully expressed: Physical difference...

...the original. 7. Philosophers are, of course, familiar with Hume's famous claim of 1753-1754, that "there never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white," but that was written before the revival of interest in Egypt that came at the end of the eighteenth...

...National Characters" (1748), "suspect[ing] the negroes ... to be naturally inferior," and asserting that "There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white," Hume dismissed "talk of one negroe as a man of parts and learning," believing that he must "be admired...

...lifetime, of the defence of slavery.33 Hume's footnote was very far from being insouciant, or unintended. 'I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all...different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites,' he wrote in 1754; in a version of the essay prepared not long before his death, and published in 1...

...English philosophers, marks whites as utterly distinct from all other races; he states of the Africans: "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."14 The Enlightenment represents...

...of cardinal importance on matters of racial difference. Hume asserted that "I am apt to suspect that the negroes, and in general all the other species...five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white."55 Sereque52. George...

...sides of the North Atlantic. As the noted Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, David 82 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, p. 24). In a similar vein, Thomas Jefferson pronounced, "the blacks, whether...

...or any achievements beyond that which a beast is also capable of, or to use the words of David Hume, "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 other complexion than white, nor even any individual...