The Popular Magazine of Anthropology, Volume 1Trübner and Company, 1866 - Anthropology |
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Page 55 - I have known death to be inflicted in such a case without the smallest hesitation or compunction. Each tribe is separate and distinct, and, unless in a' pressing emergency, intercourse takes place or meetings are held by any two or more tribes, only after preparations and arrangements as careful and punctilious as those between two German Principalities. This tribal right to exclusive occupation is, however, modified in certain cases for the benefit of the tribes generally. When certain articles...
Page 18 - ... an ignorant, excitable, and uncivilized population — rebellion, arson, murder. These are hard and harsh words, gentlemen, but they are true; and this is no time to indulge in selected sentences or polished phraseology.
Page 24 - is everything — literature, science, art ; in a word, civilisation depends on it. ... With me race or hereditary descent is everything ; it stamps the man.
Page 79 - Every nation that has ever had any tradition of a time when their ancestors were savages, and of the first introduction of civilization among them, always represent some foreigner, or some Being from Heaven as having first taught them the arts of life. Thus, the ancient Greeks attributed to Prometheus — a supposed superhuman Being— 'the introduction of the use of fire.
Page 56 - I confess that I strongly doubted, but still there was no disputing the apparent facts. Jemmy was not only familiar with the Bible, which he could read remarkably well, but he was even better acquainted with the more abstruse tenets of Christianity ; and so far as the whites could see, his behaviour was in accordance with his religious acquirements. One Sunday morning I walked down to the black fellows' camp, to have a talk with Jemmy, as usual.
Page 3 - I say that the fate of nations depends on the true appreciation of the science of anthropology? Are the causes which have overthrown the greatest of nations not to be resolved by the laws regulating the intermixture of the races of man...
Page 17 - ... 63. I cannot myself doubt that it is in a great degree due to Dr. Underbill's letter and the meetings held in connexion with that letter, where the people were told that they were tyrannized over and ill-treated, were over-taxed, were denied political rights, had no just tribunals were misrepresented to Her Majesty's Government by the authorities and by the planters...
Page 57 - His only reply was a dogged repetition of the words : ' A Bogan black-fellow killed her!" I appealed to him as a Christian — to the Sermon on the Mount, that he had just been reading; but he absolutely refused to promise that he would not avenge his mother's death. In the afternoon of that day we were startled by a yell which can never be mistaken by any person who has once heard the wild war-whoop of the blacks when in battle array. On...
Page 17 - Underbill's letter and the meetings held in connexion with that letter, where the people were told that they were tyrannized over and ill-treated, were over-taxed, were denied political rights, had no just tribunals were misrepresented to Her Majesty's Government by the authorities and by the planters , and where, in fact, language of the most exciting and...
Page 109 - The Caucasian differs from all other races : he is humane, he is civilized, and progresses. He conquers with his head, as well as with his hand. It is intellect, after all, that conquers — not the strength of a man's arm. The Caucasian has been often master of the other races — never their slave. He has carried his religion to other races, but never taken theirs.