A Treatise on the Intellectual Character, and Civil and Political Condition of the Colored People of the U. States (Classic Reprint): And the Prejudice Exercised Towards Them - Softcover
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But when we come to talk about intellectual differences, we are brought into a new field of investigation. I call it a new or another field, because I cannot believe that nature has any thing to do in variegating intellect, any more than it has power over the soul. Mind can act on matter, but matter cannot act upon mind hence it fills an entirely different sphere therefore. We must look for a cause of difference of intellect elsewhere, for it cannot be found in nature. In looking for a cause, we have no right to go above nor below the sphere which the mind occupies; we cannot rationally conceive the cause to originate with God, nor in matter. Nature never goes out of her own limits to pro duce her works; all of which are perfect so far as she is con cerned, and most assuredly God's works are perfect; hence, whatever imperfections there are in the mind, must have origi nated within its own sphere. But the question is, what is the cause and the manner it affects P Originally there was no dif ference of intellect, either constitutional or casual. Man was perfect, and therefore to him there was no exception. After he fell, we immediately find a difference of mind. In Abel we find characteristics of a noble soul, a prolific mind his understanding appears to have been but very little, if any, impaired bv the fall. But in Cain we find quite the reverse. His mind appears to have been narrow - his understanding darl\: - having wrapped himself up in a covetous mantle as contemptible as his conduct was wicked.
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But when we come to talk about intellectual differences, we are brought into a new field of investigation. I call it a new or another field, because I cannot believe that nature has any thing to do in variegating intellect, any more than it has power over the soul. Mind can act on matter, but matter cannot act upon mind hence it fills an entirely different sphere therefore. We must look for a cause of difference of intellect elsewhere, for it cannot be found in nature. In looking for a cause, we have no right to go above nor below the sphere which the mind occupies; we cannot rationally conceive the cause to originate with God, nor in matter. Nature never goes out of her own limits to pro duce her works; all of which are perfect so far as she is con cerned, and most assuredly God's works are perfect; hence, whatever imperfections there are in the mind, must have origi nated within its own sphere. But the question is, what is the cause and the manner it affects P Originally there was no dif ference of intellect, either constitutional or casual. Man was perfect, and therefore to him there was no exception. After he fell, we immediately find a difference of mind. In Abel we find characteristics of a noble soul, a prolific mind his understanding appears to have been but very little, if any, impaired bv the fall. But in Cain we find quite the reverse. His mind appears to have been narrow - his understanding darl\: - having wrapped himself up in a covetous mantle as contemptible as his conduct was wicked.
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