 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 Seiten
...limit of human perfection." * Galton,t in speaking of the same subject, says: — "It follows . . . that the average ability of the Athenian race is,...very nearly two grades higher than our own ; that is almost as much as our race is above that of the African negro. This estimate * Lecky, European Morals.... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1878 - 552 Seiten
...Divinity, and failed. The ablest people of whom history bears record is unquestionably the ancient Greek. " The average ability of the Athenian race is, on the...own — that is, about as much as our race is above the African negro."1 This race did not go on to possess the world. Though highest in products of the... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1878 - 552 Seiten
...Divinity, and failed. The ablest people of whom history bears record is unquestionably the ancient Greek. " The average ability of the Athenian race is, on the...own — that is, about as much as our race is above the African negro."1 This race did not go on to possess the world. Though highest in products of the... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1880 - 602 Seiten
...Divinity, and failed. The ablest people of whom history bears record is unquestionably the ancient Greek. " The average ability of the Athenian race is, on the...own — that is, about as much as our race is above the African negro." J This race did not go on to possess the world. Though highest in products of the... | |
 | Henry Norman - 1881 - 170 Seiten
...history bears record is unquestionably the ancient Greek," makes the following astonishing statement: " It follows from all this that the average ability...own, — that is, about as much as our race is above the African negro." At this time the shadow of Eastern supremacy had been dissipated and " the great... | |
 | Charles Samuel Eby - 1883 - 324 Seiten
...practical minds. Strange forces seemed to unite and produce a remarkable race. They tell us that1 " the average ability of the Athenian race is, on the...higher than our own — that is, about as much as our (the European) race is above the African negro." And now why did not this race go on and possess the... | |
 | William Forsell Kirby - 1883 - 232 Seiten
...on the whole to have somewhat exaggerated the intellectual status of the Athenians, when he says,* " It follows from all this that the average ability of the Athenian race is, on the very lowest possible estimate, very nearly two grades higher then our own ; that is, about as much... | |
 | William Burnet Wright - 1886 - 332 Seiten
...history." "It follows," says the same authority, " that the average ability of the Athenian race was on the lowest possible estimate very nearly two grades higher than our own (the English) ; that is about as much as our race is above the African negro." Without pressing this... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 504 Seiten
...limit of human perfection." * Galton.t in speaking of the same subject, says: —"It follows . . . that the average ability of the Athenian race is,...very nearly two grades higher than our own; that is almost as much as our race is above that of the African negro. This estimate which may seem prodigious... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1897 - 530 Seiten
...me that even if we accept Galton's method of comparison, there is small foundation for his judgment "that the average ability of the Athenian race is,...much as our race is above that of the African Negro." But it can be shown, I think, that this method, no matter how carefully we allow for differences of... | |
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It follows from all this, that the average ability of the Athenian race is, on the lowest possible estimate, very nearly two grades higher than our own ; that is, about as much as our race is above that of the African negro. 
