David Hume — "I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There sc…"

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.
David Hume — David Hume Early Modern · Empiricism, skepticism

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Of National Characters, Essays, Moral, Political, Literary

Date: 1748 (later revised in 1753-1754)

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