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Watch again a gang of natives trying to get a log of timber down into the river from the bank, and you will see the same sort of thing no idea of a lever, or any thing of that sort and remember that, unless under white direction, the African has never made an even fourteenth-rate piece of cloth or pottery, or a machine, tool, picture, sculpture, and that he has never even risen to the level of picture-writing.
They are not dreamers, or poets, and you will observe, and I hope observe closely for to my mind this is the most important difference between their make of mind and our own that they are notably deficient in all mechanical arts: they have never made, unless under white direction and instruction, a single fourteenth-rate piece of cloth, pottery, a tool or machine, house, road, bridge, picture or statue; that a written language of their own construction they none of them possess.
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