We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Through my youth, there was imposed on us a culture relentlessly English. English books were all you could buy; English television filled our screens, and in consequence, England seemed to matter in a way that our world didn't.
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.
Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage communities. In these last, seldom are any laws, unless it be the arbitrary and uncertain will of the strongest.
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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