I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilized nation of that complexion, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation. No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences.
Empiricism, skepticism
Of National Characters, Essays, Moral, Political, Literary
1748 (later revised in 1753-1754)
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