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A SCHOOL HISTORY OF THE
Empire. The Briton has had eighteen centuries to
be what he is, the Negro has had really but twenty-
five years. Let us weigh his progress in just bal¬
ances.
SOME QUOTATIONS FROM LEADING WRITERS ON
THE NEGRO.
" The Sphinx may have been the shrine of the
Negro population of Egypt, who, as a people, were
unquestionably under our average size. Three mil¬
lion Buddhists in Asia represent their chief deity,
Buddha, with Negro features and hair. There are
two other images of Buddha, one at Ceylon and the
other at Calanse, of which Lieutenant Mahoney
says: ' Both these statues agree in having crisped
hair and long, pendant ear-rings.' "—Morton.
" The African is a man with every attribute of
humankind. Centuries of barbarism have had the
same hurtful effects on Africans as Pritchard de¬
scribes them to have had on certain of the Irish who
were driven, some generations back, to the hills in
Ulster and Connaught"—the moral and physical
effects are the same.
" Ethnologists reckon the African as by no means
the lowest of the human family. He is nearly as
strong physically as the European ; and, as a race,
is wonderfully persistent among the nations of the
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