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" The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and imagination, must be hazarded with great diffidence. To justify a general conclusion, requires many observations, even where the subject may be submitted to the anatomical knife, to optical... "
The Journal of Negro History - Page 62
edited by - 1917
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...many as among their better instructed masters, of benevolence, gratitude, and unshaken fidelity.... The opinion, that they are inferior in the faculties...may be submitted to the anatomical knife, to optical classes, to analysis by fire, or by solvents. How much more then where it is a faculty, not a substance,...
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Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...as many as among their better instructed masters, of benevolence, gratitude and unshaken fidelity. The opinion, that they are inferior in the faculties...may be submitted to the anatomical knife, to optical classes, to analysis by fire, or by solvents. How much more then where it is a faculty, not a substance,...
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An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the ...

George Livermore - African Americans - 1863 - 218 pages
...Virginia," has given very fully his views of the physical, moral, and mental capacities of negroes. Thomas " The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and Jefferson, imagination must be hazarded with great diffidence. To justify a general conclusion, requires...
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Anti-slavery Opinions Before the Year 1800: Read Before the Cincinnati ...

William Frederick Poole - History - 1873 - 110 pages
...capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid" — p. 232. He doubtingly adds : "The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties...justify a general conclusion requires many observations" — p. 238. The opportunity for making these observations he had never had. It so happened that soon...
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 6

Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...Virginia," has given very fully his views of the physical, moral, and mental capacities of negroes. " The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties of reason and Thomas imagination must be hazarded with great diffidence. To justify a gene- Jeffersonral conclusion,...
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The National Quarterly Review

Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1880 - 1104 pages
...masters, of benevolence, gratitude, and unshaken fidelity. " The opinion, that they are inferior in faculties of reason and imagination must be hazarded...may be submitted to the anatomical knife, to optical classes [glasses ?], to analysis by fire, or by solvents. How much more then where it is a faculty,...
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903
...as many as among their better instructed masters, of benevolence, gratitude, and unshaken fidelity. The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties...optical glasses, to analysis by fire or by solvents. Plow much more then where it is a faculty, not a substance, we are examining; where it eludes the research...
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American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 3

Albert Bushnell Hart, John Gould Curtis - United States - 1901 - 694 pages
...many as among their better instructed masters, of benevolence, gratitude, and unshaken fidelity. — The opinion, that they are inferior in the faculties...imagination, must be hazarded with great diffidence. . . . To our reproach it must be said, that though for a century and a half we have had under our eyes the races...
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The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

George Spring Merriam - African Americans - 1906 - 482 pages
...by deportation. But he hesitated to affirm any essential inferiority in the negro race. He wrote : " The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties...imagination must be hazarded with great diffidence." Later he wrote that " they were gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 9

American essays - 1862 - 884 pages
...integrity, and as many as among their instructed masters, of benevolence, gratitude, and unshaken fidelity. The opinion that they are inferior in the faculties...imagination must be hazarded with great diffidence." The old hot thought blazes forth again in the chapter on " Particular Manners and Customs." Can men...
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