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Thursday 4 December 2008 @ 22:05:34
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Bienvenue,
SimpleXML rocks ! :)"Untouched people; not necessarily noble savages, but apparently happy
ones. They lived in a land of plenty, ready to share their bananas
and guavas and coconuts. They were to be envied for their 'primitive
simplicity and kind-heartedness'. Where was that 'malady of thought'
afflicting industrial England? [Huxley] realized that 'civilization
as we call it would be rather a curse than a blessing to them'. Huxley
knew the fate in store for them, slamming the 'mistaken goodness of
the "Stigginses" of Exeter Hall, who would send missionaries to these
men to tell them that they will all infallibly be damned'."
[Adrian Desmond, "Huxley", p. 120, on Huxley
encountering natives on a remote island]
--kof