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MONS. J. C. HOUZEAU, the author of the “Études sur les facultés mentales des animaux comparées a celles de I'homme,” has lately concluded, in Jamaica, a series of laborious experimental investigations on the relative or comparative intellectual capacity and development of the children of different races inhabiting that island. The conclusions arrived at by such an observer are worthy of the highest consideration in Europe: while the subject is one that has an important bearing on various popular educational, ethnological, and social questions of the day—such as the unity of mankind, and the possibility or probability of civilising savage races A recent letter addressed to me by M. Houzeau, contains the following brief account of his experiments and conclusions; an account that cannot fail, I think, to be interesting to the readers of NATURE.
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LINDSAY, W. Mental Potentiality in Children of Different Races . Nature 10, 272 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010272a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/010272a0