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is deep, make them to fill up the character 
of a Pharisee, as described by the Savior in 
the New Testament. 
They are decidedly a superior race of 
people,— much more intelligent and enter- 
prising than the heathen proper, though no 
less sunken in vice. We shall say more of 
them in another part of this work. 
It is true, that the general appearance of 
the most stupid Africans indicate suscepti- 
bility of mental culture, and from actual 
experiment, by different Missionaries, the 
evidence is conclusive on this point. Their 
children between the ages of five and fifteen 
years, are, all things considered, quite as 
susceptible of intellectual improvement, as 
are the white children of this country. 
In the study of those branches of science 
requiring the exercise of memory, mainly^ 
such as geography and history, they fully 
compete with American children ; but in the 
study of those branches of science which 
require the exercise of the reasoning facul- 
ties, they are inferior to the children of this 
country. 
It requires no supernatural ken, however, 
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