These people are wild in the same way as we say that fruits are wild, when nature has produced them by herself and in her ordinary way; whereas, in fact, it is those that we have artificially modified, and removed from the common order, that ; we ought... Ecriture Du Voyage Et Mémoire Culturelle - Página 65de International Comparative Literature Association. Congress - 2000 - 293 páginasVista previa restringida - Acerca de este libro
| Roger Smith - 1997 - 1070 páginas
...money. Europeans claimed that such native Americans lacked civilization, that is, in Montaigne's words, 'these people are wild in the same way as we say that...has produced them by herself and in her ordinary way . . .'12 This claim cut two ways. Some observers, Montaigne included, held up native peoples as an... | |
| Geoffrey Sanborn - 1998 - 274 páginas
...(Essays, 113). Montaigne takes this to be less a sign of their "horrible savagery" (113) than a sign that "[t]hese people are wild in the same way as we say...from the common order, that we ought to call wild" (109). He declares that it is "more barbarous to eat a man alive than to eat him dead; to tear by rack... | |
| Edmund Ronald Leach - 2000 - 444 páginas
...system, the perfect and most accomplished way of doing everything. These people [the Brazilian Indians] are wild in the same way as we say that fruits are wild, when nature has produced them by herself in her ordinary way . . . they are still very close to their original simplicity . . . they are still... | |
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