Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Common sense itself is scarcely needed to detect the absence of manhood in a monkey, or to recognize its presence in a negro. ... Away, therefore, with all the scientific moonshine that would connect men with monkeys; that would have the world believe that humanity, instead of resting on its own characteristic pedestal — gloriously independent — is a sort of sliding scale, making one extreme brother to the ourang-ou-tang, and the other to angels, and all the rest intermediates!
Frederick Douglass, The claims of the negro, ethnologically considered. An address, before the literary societies , Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 (Rochester, 1854), p. 8.
"scientific moonshine" ...
I am currently reading this pamphlet for an argument against polygenesis; it may be found on-line here.
Frederick Douglass, The claims of the negro, ethnologically considered. An address, before the literary societies , Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854 (Rochester, 1854), p. 8.
"scientific moonshine" ...
I am currently reading this pamphlet for an argument against polygenesis; it may be found on-line here.
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