savage

is condemned only at the cost of aspersing our own progenitors.

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors... for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found'-- Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exist the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us-- Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians-- sprung from one head and made in one image. Herman Melville

is a person whose manners differ from ours.

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