a successful one, we think we need not fear to assert that what he was, he owed to the superior talents of two white men, Lacedemonians, namely, Sobsius and Philemius, one of whom was his teacher, and the other a counsellor, who always attended him in his warlike expeditions. — Rollin, vol. i, p. 375.
There were others of the Africans, as Masinissa and Juba, kings who reigned in the interior of Africa, in the time of the Carthagenians, of whom it is said that they were great men, who, as well as Hannibal, received their education of white teachers — the Romans.
In conclusion, therefore, from a view of the preceding facts, we are compelled to hold that it is absolutely certain, taking the whole history of both races, the whites and blacks, into the account, that the 'latter are absolutely unequal and lower in mental abilities, and do not possess, naturally, the stamina of improvement as do the former; and that this difference is attributable alone to the wisdom of God, in the creation of the negro race, in the blood and being of Ham, their father; on which account it is as utterly impossible to elevate them to an equality with the whites, as it is to take away the blackness of their skins.
As sure as day is fairer to the sight
Than dreary darkness in the hour of night —
Or wood, less dazzling in the sun's bright glare.
Than Ophir's sands of gold and rabies are:
So sure it is, as sure as truth is great,
The blacks have got, than whites, a thicker pate.
But if this thought displease, as not refin'd,
We can but add, therefore — they have less mind.
