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"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