MAORIS’ INTELLIGENCE.
LOGICAL AS WHITE THINKERS.
Newhaven (Conn.), Sept. 5,
Lecturing at the ninth International Congress of Psychology at Yale University, Dr. I. L. G. Sutherland, Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria. University College, read a paper upon the intelligence of the Maori. He stated that a study of the native Maoris’ ‘ intelligence in comparison with that of the whites in no way. supported' the belief in race traits as the main influence Upon culture. He could find nothing to support the theory that there were intrinsic differences between the primitive and civilised mind. He found the Maori argued as logically as the white thinker once he was familiar with the premises.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3994, 7 September 1929, Page 2
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111MAORIS’ INTELLIGENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3994, 7 September 1929, Page 2
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