The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, used the Platonic logic of associating outward appearance with inward essence in a hierarchical binary when he
wrote: "Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason and imagination, it appears to me that in
memory they are equal to the whites: in reason much inferior, as I think one could scarcely be found capable
of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid, and that in imagination, they are dull, tasteless.
and anomalous."
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