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FL661340fy our curiosity, [more particularly when it is borne in mind that they are rather reserve towards Europeans]. Still I would add, should some of you form too low an estimate of the Blacks of this country as to being so utterly degraded; ignorant as hardly worth our inquiry, there is no human race so deeply sunk or so utterly savage as act to present some few features of interest. These may yet be traced in all the races of the earth, however degenerate certain assimilations to the rest of the human family, some kindred feelings and sympathies and desires, certain qualifications and susceptibilities, intellect- ual and other faculties, together with some failings, infirmities and inherent evil propensities which all prove tend to prove that they partake of the same nature as ourselves that they are our kindred. Indeed those who have studied the human races more carefully | FL661340fy our curiosity, [more particularly when it is borne in mind that they are rather reserve towards Europeans]. Still I would add, should some of you form too low an estimate of the Blacks of this country as to being so utterly degraded; ignorant as hardly worth our inquiry, there is no human race so deeply sunk or so utterly savage as act to present some few features of interest. These may yet be traced in all the races of the earth, however degenerate certain assimilations to the rest of the human family, some kindred feelings and sympathies and desires, certain qualifications and susceptibilities, intellect- ual and other faculties, together with some failings, infirmities and inherent evil propensities which all prove tend to prove that they partake of the same nature as ourselves that they are our kindred. Indeed those who have studied the human races more carefully |
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