 | Edward Eliot - 1833 - 262 pages
...progress in civility or science. They have no plan or system of morality among them. Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below that of brutes. They have no moral sensations .... They are retension of resemblance than what arises from their exterior form. These opinions seem... | |
 | Edward Eliot - Slavery - 1833 - 266 pages
...progress in civility or science. They have no plan or system of morality among them. Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below that of brutes. They have no moral sensations .... They are represented by all authors as the vilest of the human kind, to which they have little... | |
 | Winthrop D. Jordan - History - 1974 - 260 pages
...much further removed from the lost pleasures of the nursery: Negroes were "void of genius" and had "no moral sensations; no taste but for women; gormandizing, and drinking to excess; no wish but to be idle." Long turned to reinforcement of what he rightly sensed might be considered the weakest portion of his... | |
 | Richard Henry Popkin - History - 1987 - 260 pages
...progress in civility or science. They have no plan or system of morality among them. Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below...brutes. They have no moral sensations; no taste but for women;'6 he went on to describe their savage characteristics. 'We find them [Negroes in America] marked... | |
 | Adam Lively - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 306 pages
...progress in civility or science. - They have no plan or system of morality among them. Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below...gormandizing, and drinking to excess; no wish but to be idle.' So it goes on. Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, Long heaps on to the Negro exactly those vices... | |
 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...vol. i, p. 2), there is nothing at all 'impartial' in his reflections about Negroes: 'Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below...have no moral sensations; no taste but for women; gormondizing, and drinking to excess; no wish but to be idle' (vol. n, p. 353). Long's relatively tolerant... | |
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In general, they are void of genius, and seem almost incapable of making any progress in civility or science. They have no plan or system of morality among them. Their barbarity to their children debases their nature even below that of brutes. They have... 