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Such means would no more make a Negro out of a Brahmin, or a Red-man out of an Englishman, than washing would change the spots of a leopard or the colour of an Ethiopian.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot uses a metaphor to illustrate the permanence of racial characteristics.
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