Furthermore , he concluded that Africans were not inferior to the rest of mankind ` concerning healthy faculties of understanding , excellent natural talents and mental capacities ' , and is quoted as saying the following : He did not consider his `` degenerative hypothesis '' as racist and sharply criticized Christoph Meiners , an early practitioner of scientific racialism , as well as Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring who concluded from autopsies that Africans were an inferior race .
Furthermore he thought that Africans were not inferior to the rest of mankind ` concerning healthy faculties of understanding , excellent natural talents and mental capacities ' .