(July 29, 2015 at 10:45 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: "At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla"
I was curious what the source of that was, so I took a bit of it and did an online search. This was at the top of the list:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Notable_Ch..._misquotes
I think you might want to read that page.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
