Note 170 — Chapter XIX
Reading edition
In Africa, as in India, the aristocracy of the skin, as the French deputy tauntingly called it, or the “prejudice of colour,” as the modern phrase runs, is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual difference. One of Mr. Pritchard’s few good generalizations is, that as a rule the darker and dingier the African tribe, the more degraded is its organization.