Essays: Literary, Moral, and PhilosophicalSyracuse University Press, 1988 - 230 pages |
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Page xxvi
... Indian culture symbolized for Rush a natural condition from which humanity had to escape in order to progress . In this process , the development of property lifted individuals out of savagery and into civilization . “ Property , and a ...
... Indian culture symbolized for Rush a natural condition from which humanity had to escape in order to progress . In this process , the development of property lifted individuals out of savagery and into civilization . “ Property , and a ...
Page 129
... Indian in his manners - In the second , the Indian manners are more diluted : It is in the third species of settlers only , that we behold civilization completed - It is to the third species of settlers only , that it is proper to apply ...
... Indian in his manners - In the second , the Indian manners are more diluted : It is in the third species of settlers only , that we behold civilization completed - It is to the third species of settlers only , that it is proper to apply ...
Page 151
... Indian vice . This is exemplified in their food - drinks - dress - persons — and above all , in their total disregard to decency in the time - place - and manner of their natural evacuations . 3. DRUNKENNESS is a more general vice among ...
... Indian vice . This is exemplified in their food - drinks - dress - persons — and above all , in their total disregard to decency in the time - place - and manner of their natural evacuations . 3. DRUNKENNESS is a more general vice among ...
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