Qu. 8. Are negro children in any respect inferior to white
children in their faculties 1 *'
Answer. Negro children do not appear in any respect inferior
to white-children in their faculties. On thacoptrary, they,
seem to he;generally.more'forward as!infants, a circumstance,
nodoubt, to be attributed to their being left much to themselves,
v for being thus thrown .more upon their own resources
they become earlier engaged in the exercise of their faculties.
CHAPTER II.
ANALOGICAL iftV^^TLGATION CONTINUED— OF THE PSY-1
CHOLOGICAL COMPARISON OF HUMAN RACES.
Section I.— General Remarks on the Psychical History o f
different Species.
T h e r e is scarcely 4my trait vi n the description'bf animals
which ; charactensti^'of Species, than the psychical
qualities with which Providence’ hhs severallybhdowed them.
'Urraèr 'thé term "psychical* endowments I méah'to ihclu(lhMthe
w hol^öf 'thé 'Sensitive' and pWcëptive ■ faculties^ of 'animal's,
their intellect, or what in’them* approaches most nearly id ‘fthe
nature of intellect, as well’as their instincts,ffé’ëlings, propensities,
and habitudes of action; all that 'corresponds in the
Idwer orders of the creation, to the* powers and attributes df
the mind in man. I have adopted this expression, psychical
properties or endowments, because I cannot find another that
will so well answer my purpose. To speak df the minds of
brute animals would be to take a liberty in the use 'óf words
that would hardly be tolerated, and our language supplies no
better means than what I have chosen for expressing the sense
which that term would convey.
All the tribes of animals are characterised by dispositions,
habits and instincts appropriated to particular species. * Nothing,
for example, is more remarkable ih the dog kind, than
the inclination of the whole tribe to associate themselves
with man; whence it has arisen that in all ages, and in almost
every comer of the, globe, they have been his companions and
devoted followers. In this respect, the dog is strikingly con