Rephrasing Hume directly, Kant stated: “The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling. Mr. Hume challenges anyone to cite a single example in which a Negro has shown talents, and asserts that hundreds of thousands of blacks who have been transported elsewhere from their countries, although many of them have been set free, still not one was ever found who presented anything great in art or science or any other praiseworthy quality.… So fundamental is the difference between these two races of man, and it appears to be as great in regard to mental capacities as in
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