She actually directly refutes the idea of superior and inferior races, just a page or so later. “The Africans have not left their continent for several hundred

She actually directly refutes the idea of superior and inferior races, just a page or so later. “The Africans have not left their continent for several hundred thousands of years. If to-morrow the continent of Europe were to disappear and other lands to reëmerge instead, and if the African tribes were to separate and scatter on the face of the Earth, it is they who, in about a hundred thousand years hence, would form the bulk of the civilized nations. And it is the descendants of those of our highly cultured nations, who might have survived on some one island, without any means of crossing the new seas, that would fall back into a state of relative savagery. Thus the reason given for dividing humanity into superior and inferior races falls to the ground and becomes a fallacy.” Emphasis mine. Her work may not have modern sensitivities, but it isn’t a racist screed. This is a massive work that involves dialectic. It seems to me that she raised a racist point only to bring it down herself, logically. Hopefully you agree that is pretty beautiful!