...to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites ; in re&son much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the...

...and a friend of the Negro race, who was not so dogmatic as Calhoun, said : — "I think one (Negro) could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending...imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous. . . . Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration...

...their average standing in mental work is not very great. Thomas Jefferson's observation that a negro "Could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid,"30 is certainly incorrect, if applied to the group here studied. If the work of all the colored...

...and after relating with his characteristic perspicuity their notorious lack of mentality, states that it would be unfair to follow them to Africa for this investigation. Obviously this last expression was a mere figure of speech. What he meant was that the evidence of...

...carried on today. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites;...consider them here, on the same stage with the whites. ... It will be right to make great allowances for the difference of conditions, of education, of conversation,...

...whites, concluding, "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 scarely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid: and that in imagination...

...proclaim of black men, Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination, it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites;...imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. It seems needlessly harsh to say, "Religion indeed has produced a Phyllis Whately; but it could not produce...

...his observations: "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites,...as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracking and comprehending the investigations of Euclid, and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless,...

...although "in memory they are equal to the whites," in "reason [they are] much inferior." Jefferson said, "I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid." We may easily agree with Merrill Peterson that Jefferson's statement that he had never met or heard...

...racial order: Comparing [blacks] 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. . . . Many millions of them have been brought to, and born in America. . . . Some have been liberally...