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there is an approximation in the form of 

 the African to that of brutes, there is none 

 in his nature ; for well educated Africans 

 have displayed great powers of mind. 



Camper also remarked, that the heads of 

 persons of intellect, were generally charac- 

 terized by a large and prominent forehead ; 

 and that in the Greek antique head, the 

 forehead is made to project beyond what is 

 natural, or has been ever observed. It 

 has, I believe, been a question among ar- 

 tists, why we are so fascinated by the sculp- 

 ture of the Greeks. The intellect of the 

 Greeks seems superior to that of most 

 other nations ; their philosophers, poets, 

 orators, and designers, have all left us 

 models difficult to imitate, almost impos- 

 sible to surpass. With a kind of intuitive 

 perception of the to kuXov, of whatever is 

 excellent or beautiful, they formed an 

 ideal perfect head, and have exaggerated 

 those circumstances in which the human 

 head differs from that of a brute ; yet with 

 a delicacy that leaves the excess beyond 

 what is natural to man, not readily distin- 



