...did in 1748, though, was to go ancient philosophers one better by hitching superiority to complexion. I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men ... to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other...

...first published in 1748. Ignoring the mass of evidence that contradicted his prejudices, Hume wrote: I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...

...of philosophy, the fundamental relationship among complexion, character, and intellectual capacity: I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...

...Condition, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1959, p. 225. 2. Arendt, The Human Condition, p. 227. 3. "I am apt to suspect the negroes and In general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...

...authority of philosophy the fundamental identity of complexion, character, and intellectual capacity: I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...

...mind.'8 What Hume had actually said, in a footnote added to his essay, 'Of National Characters,' was, I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five kinds) to be naturally inferior to the white. There never was a...

...from Hume, by setting up a single standard of value and then calling anyone who meets it a "parrot": I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...

...David Hume who enunciated an argument that repeated a refrain common to accounts of the Amerindians: 'I am apt to suspect the Negroes and in general all the other species of men ... .to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other...

...of human beings. It was pointedly formulated by David Hume (171176) in a frequently cited passage: I am apt to suspect the Negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to he naturally inferior to the whites. There never...

...office in 1766. Hume advocated both the separate creation and innate inferiority of nonwhite races: I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never...