Excerpt from Mémoires du Général Toussaint l'Ouverture, Écrits par Lui-Même, Pouvant Servir à l'Histoire de Sa Vie: Ornés d'un Beau Portrait Gravé par Choubard, Précédés d'une Étude Historique Et Critique, Suivis de Notes Et Renseignements, Avec un Appendice Contenant les Opinions de l'Empereur Napoléon 1er sur les Événements de Saint-Domingue
L'egypte qui fut le centre d'une grande civilisation, n'était peuplée que de noirs. Ces noirs ne créèrent-ils pas des choses prodigieuses qui jusqu'à présent font l'objet de notre admiration? Que si l'on ne veut pas admettre que la population primitive de l'egypte fût noire, contre l'autorité d'hérodote, qui visita ces contrées sous les Pha raons de Volney, qui, par sa propre investigation, con firma l'expérience de son devancier 2; d'un grand nombre d'autres savants des temps antiques et modernes, ne suffirait-il pas, comme on l'a déjà souvent fait remarquer, de voir le célèbre Sphinx 3, pour y reconnaître parfaite ment le type distinctif de la race éthiopienne?
Mais en concédant que la population égyptienne fût d'o rigine caucasienne, l'on sait, à n'en pas douter, qu'au moment où la terre des Pharaons était au plus haut degré de civilisation, l'europe était dans la plus complète bar barie; rien n'y manquait pour caractériser l'état sauvage.
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