I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites.
Empiricism, skepticism
I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites.
Empiricism, skepticism
Footnote to 'Of National Characters', first published in 1753
1753
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