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to ridicule those who do not share their prejudices, denouncing as anti-democratic snobbery all recognition of the fact of inequality. The recent application on a large scale of the methods of mental measurement has merely made a little more definite our knowledge of the extent and distribution of these natural differences of mental endowment among ourselves." "Ethics and some Modern World Problems McDougall pages 88-89.
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"The truth is that the native differences between men, though they may seem small to a superficial view, are nevertheless vastly important. It may be true that civilization may endure and even undergo further development, without any further evolution of the native qualities of men. But this can only be possible so long as the various peoples of the world continue to produce a fair proportion of individuals of the highest type, men and women capable of fully assimilating the culture transmitted to us by our forefathers and of further refining and improving it."2 Ibid. pp. 143-144.
"The superiority of the white literates to the white illiterates is due... not wholly or mainly to their schooling, but rather to an inborn greater capacity for intellectual growth."-"National Welfare and National Decay" by Wm. McDougall, p. 68.
"... the Negro race... has never yet shown itself capable of raising or maintaining itself unaided above a barbaric level of culture. It seems to me probable in the highest
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1 "These differences, no doubt, are small in comparison with the total native endowment of the average human being. But to call them small in any other sense would be gravely misleading."
2... Professor R. B. Dixon writes, in his recently published Racial History of Man', as follows: That there is a difference between the fundamental types in quality, in intellectual capacity, in moral fibre, in all that makes or has made any people great, I believe to be true, despite what advocates of the uniformity of man may say.'"
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