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in genetic racial distinction and fixed hierarchy. “I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites,” Enlightenment philosopher David Hume wrote in 1753. “There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white….Such a
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The laws which have been hitherto mentioned, i.e. the laws of nature, do bind men absolutely, even as they are men, although they have never any settled fellowship, never any solemn agreement amongst themselves what to do, or not to do: but forasmuch as we are not by ourselves sufficient to furnish ourselves with competent store of things, needful
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Sam Harris • Free Will
Curiosities of human nature: : Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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The practical methodologies evolved over many years, and were largely the work of John Hall, a gunsmith from Portland, Maine, and inventor of the “Hall carbine” that became notorious when muckrakers dug into the youthful Pierpont Morgan’s dealings with Civil War procurement authorities.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
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Sam Harris • Free Will
Herbert wrote and polished his lone collection of poems privately, and on his deathbed he handed the manuscript over to his friend Nicholas Ferrar.
Leland Ryken • The Devotional Poetry of Donne, Herbert, and Milton
“I don’t consider niggers in the same light as I would a white man,”