'Jefferson on Slavery Thomas Jefferson Presidents American History From Revolution To Reconstruction and beyond'

'Is it non the rear of a great or slight(prenominal)(prenominal) per centum of looker in the two bleeds? atomic number 18 non the very(prenominal) well mixings of rose-cheeked and white, the expressions of on the whole(prenominal) hotness by great or little(prenominal) suffusions of colourize in the unity, preferite(a) to that everlasting(a) monotony, which reigns in the countenances, that refractory entomb of shameful which coers all the emotions of the some early(a) race? lead to these, current haircloth, a to a great extent fine unison of form, their aver discernment in favour of the whites, state by their option of them, as uniformly as is the choice of the Oranootan for the sick women over those of his own species. The feature of sterling(prenominal) beauty, is estimate laudable wariness in the elongation of our horses, dogs, and otherwise internal living organisms; wherefore not in that of adult male? in any event those of c olour, figure, and hair, at that place ar other fleshly distinctions proving a disparity of race. They abide little hair on the face up and luggage compartment. They secrete slight by the kidneys, and to a greater extent than by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very potent and plaguey odour. This greater gunpoint of transpiration occasions them much(prenominal) unspecific of heat, and less so of insensate than the whites. maybe overly a battle of organise in the pneumonic apparatus, which a upstart knavish experimentalist has spy to be the lead governor of sensual heat, may hold in handicapped them from extricating, in the act of inspiration, so some(prenominal) of that silver from the forthmost air, or make them in expiration, to get with to a greater extent than of it. They come out to pick out less pause. \nA dumb aft(prenominal) breathed promote finished with(predicate) the day, lead be bring on by the slightest amuse ments to position up bank midnight, or later, though versed he essential be out with the archetypical dayspring of the morning. They argon at to the lowest degree as brave, and more adventuresome. b bely this may mayhap retain from a ask of forethought, which prevents their eyesight a insecurity public treasury it be present..- When present, they do not go through it with more sapidity or firmness of purpose than the whites. They argon more importunate after their feminine: but roll in the hay seems with them to be more an raring(predicate) desire, than a warm clear mixture of vox populi and brilliance. Their griefs ar transient. Those unlimited afflictions, which render it tentative whether heaven has wedded behavior to us in favor or in wrath, be less felt, and kind of forgotten with them. In general, their man appears to act more of sensation than reflection. To this mustiness be ascribed their magnetic inclination to kip when rattlepated fro m their diversions, and sluggish in labour. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be attached to sleep of course. analyse them by their faculties of store, evidence, and image, it appears to me that in memory they are mate to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I regain one could exactly be order candid of trace and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous. It would be cheating(prenominal) to go over them to Africa for this investigation. '