id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt race-1997-39 race-1997-39 1997 .txt text/plain 1920 65 47 He particularly refuted the common racist claim that black Africans bore unique features of their inferiority: There is no single character so peculiar and so universal among the Ethiopians, but what it may be observed on the one hand everywhere in other varieties of men. I doubt that Blumenbach was actively encouraging racism by redrawing the mental diagram of human groups. cache/race-1997-39.txt txt/race-1997-39.txt