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From the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911):

“[T]he negro would appear to stand on a lower evolutionary plane than the white man, and to be more closely related to the highest anthropoids.”

“Mentally the negro is inferior to the white.”

“[A]fter puberty sexual matters take the first place in the negro’s life and thought.”