It must have been race-aversion that put upon them a good deal of the low-rate intellectual reputation which they bear and have borne this long time in the world's estimate of them.
They were lazy--always lazy.

Perhaps that was their trouble.

It is a killing defect.

Surely they could have invented and built a competent house, but they didn't.

And they could have invented and developed the agricultural arts, but they didn't.