 | Jeannine Marie DeLombard - 2009 - 344 strani
...inferiority. "Comparing [blacks] by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination," Jefferson finds "that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior," and "in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous"; thus, like animals, "their existence... | |
 | Jabari Asim - 2007 - 300 strani
...prone to theft, and suffer from a perverse lack of ambition. Whereas Thomas Jefferson thought a Negro "could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid," Rock observed that "Niggas hate knowledge, shit. Niggas break into your house — you want to save... | |
 | Ned Sublette - 2008 - 369 strani
...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;...imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous, [paragraphing added] The eighteenth-century prose style aside, there is not much in this passage that... | |
 | Susan Manning, Francis D. Cogliano - 2008 - 236 strani
...faculties of memory, reason, and imagination it appears to me that in memory they are equal to the white; in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely...comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in the imagination they are dull, tasteless and anomalous. It would be unfair to follow them to Africa... | |
 | Akinyi von K'Orinda-Yimbo - 2007 - 256 strani
...Jefferson himself wrote, "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites;...that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous"52. Euclid, the world's greatest mathematician, was an African. In 1711, the writer Joseph... | |
 | Martin B. Duberman - 1964 - 74 strani
...them. In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. It appears to me that in memory they are equal to the whites;...tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid. It will be right to make great allowances for the difference of condition, of education, of conversation,... | |
 | 1812 - 548 strani
...them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they arc equal to the whites ; in reason much inferior, as...of tracing and comprehending the investigations of F.urlid; and that in imagination they are duU, tasteless, and anomalous. Sef Jfjf'ittn'i *Y.>*vj 9n... | |
 | Université libre de Bruxelles. Institut de sociologie - 1914 - 632 strani
...their average standing in mental work is not very great. THOMVS JEFFERSON'S observation that a negro Could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid is certainly incorrect, if applied to the group here studied. If the work of all the colored pupils... | |
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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... 
