Mid-America, 1960, Vol. 42

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Excerpt from Mid-America, 1960, Vol. 42: An Historical QuarterlyThus Francis Parkman vividly asserted his belief that all men have the same basic nature in which the character Of the savage is'present in all men in some degree. To him the true difference between the savage who had been educated and the man of civilized culture was no more than an equation Of the distance each had traveled from actual savagery. Because he was more recently removed from the primitive stage, the educated savage would revert to man's fundamental nature more readily than a cultured person in whom the war-like instinct was neither extinguished nor repressed, but simply refined and Civilized.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.