 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Jurisprudence - 1823 - 810 pages
...which polite nations so highly value : can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense ? It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow, that we ourselves are not Christians. Weak minds... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...which polite nations ко highly value : can there be a greater proof of tbi-ir wanting common sense ? "It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow, that we ourselves are not Christians. (! !) " Weak... | |
 | William Hosmer - History - 1852 - 206 pages
...which polite nations so highly value: can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense ? " It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow, that we ourselves are not Christians. " Weak minds... | |
 | Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 508 pages
...gold, which polite nations so highly value; can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense? It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow, that we ourselves are not Christians. Weak minds... | |
 | J. W.. Gilbart - History - 1857 - 178 pages
...God, who is a wise being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body. " It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men ; because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians." In every age... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1862 - 692 pages
...which polite nations so highly value ; can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense ? It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow, that we ourselves are not Christians." A far more... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1864 - 1062 pages
...witnesses. Unlimited license to commit any crime upon, or to do any wrong to, the black and coppercolored races, is thus awarded to the white man, unless those...Well might Montesquieu say, "it is impossible for ns to suppose these creatures to be men; because by allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Catholic Church - 1865 - 552 pages
...God, who is a wise Being, should place a soul, especially a good soul, in such a black, ugly body. " It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men; because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians." In every age... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Evolution - 1899 - 472 pages
...gold which polite nations so highly value. Can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense? It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, \_/ because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christians.*... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1917 - 508 pages
...gold, which polite nations so highly value: can there be greater proof of their wanting common sense f "It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow, that we ourselves are not Christians."— Book XV,... | |
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The negroes prefer a glass necklace to that gold which polite nations so highly value. Can there be a greater proof of their wanting common sense? It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion... 
