Carl Peter Thunberg

thumb| Carl Peter Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828) was a Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. Attributed It may indeed be alleged, that the inhabitants of the warmer climates have a dull torpid brain, and are less keen and sharp than the Europeans. They have a power of thinking, but not profoundly, and consequently conversation among them is rather trifling.—They are, in general, idle, sleepy, heavy, and lascivious. To these qualities, the heat of the climate itself inclines them; and, without insulting the dark brown inhabitants of the East Indies, one may truly say that there is a greater difference between them and the Europeans, than between the monkeys and them. In Charles White, An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man, &c. (London, 1799), p. 66 The language, which frequently is almost the only thing that distinguishes the indolent Hottentots from the brute creation, is poor, unlike any other in the world, is pronounced with a clack of the tongue, and is never written. In White (1799), p. 67 External links Category:1743 births Category:1828 deaths Category:Naturalists from Sweden Category:Biologists from Sweden Category:Non-fiction authors from Sweden