An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human SpeciesJ. Simpson and Company, 1810 - 411 Seiten |
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... reason , and by the most authentic documents which remain to us of ancient history . * All the earliest monuments of nations , as far as we can trace them , fix their origin about the middle regions of Asia , and present man to us in a ...
... reason , and by the most authentic documents which remain to us of ancient history . * All the earliest monuments of nations , as far as we can trace them , fix their origin about the middle regions of Asia , and present man to us in a ...
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... reason , as well as history , for the truth , or probability of their pictures . Hardly is it possible that man , placed on the sur- face of the new world , in the midst of its forests and marshes , capable of reason , indeed , but ...
... reason , as well as history , for the truth , or probability of their pictures . Hardly is it possible that man , placed on the sur- face of the new world , in the midst of its forests and marshes , capable of reason , indeed , but ...
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... , would have been nothing but a large infant . Reason , the su- preme prerogative of our nature , and its chief dis- tinction from that of the inferior animals , could have if availed him little in that emergency . It would have 19.
... , would have been nothing but a large infant . Reason , the su- preme prerogative of our nature , and its chief dis- tinction from that of the inferior animals , could have if availed him little in that emergency . It would have 19.
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... reason . They resembled brutes more than men . Attentive only to the calls of hunger , and the objects with which they were accustom- ed to satisfy that appetite , they seemed to be capable of no other ideas . They could not be made to ...
... reason . They resembled brutes more than men . Attentive only to the calls of hunger , and the objects with which they were accustom- ed to satisfy that appetite , they seemed to be capable of no other ideas . They could not be made to ...
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... reason why nature has never made but one such effort ? Why have we never , since that first generative act , found , in the most extensive morasses , even in the torrid zone , one newly formed man ; nor even one limb , or outline of a ...
... reason why nature has never made but one such effort ? Why have we never , since that first generative act , found , in the most extensive morasses , even in the torrid zone , one newly formed man ; nor even one limb , or outline of a ...
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Africa African America American Philosophical Society anatomists animals appearance arts ascribed Asia atmosphere beauty become bile Blumenbach body causes character Charles White chiefly civilized climate cold complexion constitution continent countenance dark colour deformed degree descendents distinguished effect enemies equally essay Europe European exist exposed extreme fact farther India figure forests frequently genius ginal globe greater habits of living hair heat human nature ideas Ignatius Sancho indian influence inhabitants islands JOSIAH SIMPSON Kaims labor Lapland latitudes less limbs Lord Kaims mankind manners nations natives negro New-Jersey northern observations original Pacific ocean peculiar persons philosopher portion principles produced proportion race racter regions religion remarks render resemblance rude SAMUEL STANHOPE SMITH seen Senegal shades skin slaves society southern subsistence suffer surprizing Tartar temperate temperature tion torrid zone tribes tropical ture varieties various warrior whole women writers zone
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Seite 264 - And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
Seite 257 - Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry.
Seite 245 - Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid : and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.
Seite 246 - Most of them indeed have been confined to tillage, to their own homes, and their own society: yet many have been so situated that they might have availed themselves of the conversation of their masters; many have been brought up to the handicraft arts, and from that circumstance have always been associated with the whites.
Seite 2 - cast out an orphan of nature, naked and helpless, into the savage forest, must have perished before he could have learned how to supply his most immediate and urgent wants. Suppose him to have been created, or to have started into being, one knows not how, in the full strength of his bodily powers, how long must it have been before he could have known the proper use of his limbs, or how to apply them to climb the tree ?
Seite 248 - I am not prepared either to deny or affirm. 1 am inclined, however, to ascribe the apparent dullness of the negro principally to the wretched state of his existence first in his original country, where he is at once a poor and abject savage, and subjected to an atrocious despotism; and afterwards in those regions to which he is transported to finish his days in slavery, and toil. Genius, in order to its cultivation, and the advantageous display of its...
Seite 313 - By confounding the language of men, and fcattering them abroad upon thp face of all the earth, they were rendered favages. And to harden them for their new habitations, it was neceflary that they mould be divided into different kinds, fitted for different climates.