but fanatics, the profoundly ignorant and self-blinded character.
There are districts of country in Africa, and especially along the Atlas mountains, in which apes and baboons are so abundant, that in many of the mud hut towns of the negro natives, these animals live all together, as if they were members of the same community. — Herne's Researches, Vol. i, p. 37. Herodotus speaks of a tribe of negroes in Africa, who were so profoundly ignorant, that they had no names by which they could distinguish each other; their memories, respecting the looks of individuals, being their only guide when they met, the same as dogs after they get acquainted.
In no age, and under no circumstances, is it possible to ascertain, among any tribes, nations, or communities of the whites, so much misery and meanness, so much wretchedness and bestiality, as is found among the negroes, not of America, but of Africa, among the aboriginal people. Neither is it possible to ascertain from the page of history, under the most favoring circumstances, that the negro race have ever risen to a comparable height with the white nations in the sciences, or even in the most necessary arts.
The ancient negroes of Egypt, Ethiopia, Lybia, and Phœnicia, had no knowledge of water power, as being applicable to propel machinery, nor of machinery itself. They knew nothing of the architectural arch. They had no knowledge of the mighty principle of steam, nor of gunpowder — nothing of the magnetic needle, the clock or time-piece. They knew nothing respecting anatomy and the circulation of
