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Abstract
There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than other savages. (Mark Twain).
How does it happen that civilized and Christian men, when brought, (as settlers in new countries), into direct contact with savage races, seem invariably to lay aside not merely the tender mercies of Christianity, but the sentiments of chivalrous magnanimity and become at times little less fierce, vindictive and bloodthirsty than their barbaric neighbours? (Cape of Good Hope Literary Magazine 2 January, 1849:139)