European Nations

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“The Indian is one of Nature’s gentlemen—he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)

“There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)