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'So rare is lying among these aboriginal races when unvitiated by the 'civilized, that of those in Bengal, Hunter singles out the Tipperahs as 'the only Hill Tribe in which this vice is met with." The Arabs are more truthful in their more primitive state than where they are influenced by "civilization," or by dealings with those from civilized communities.
Truthfulness of Achilles. Plato. Aristotle. Theognis. Pindar. Tragedy of Philoctetes. Roman Standard. Cicero. Marcus Aurelius. German Ideal. Veracity a Primitive Conception. Lie Abhorrent among Hill Tribes of India. Khonds. Sonthals. Todas. Bheels. Sowrahs. Tipperahs. Arabs. American Indians. Patagonians. Hottentots. East Africans. Mandingoes. Dyaks of Borneo, "Lying Heaps." Veddahs of Ceylon.
The god Siva, to whom the Tipperahs of Bengal are supposed to have sacrificed as many as a thousand human victims a year, said to the Brahamins: 'It is I that am the actual offering; it is I that you butcher upon my altars." Ch. ix, v. 16. Primitive Folk, ch. vi. It was in allusion to this doctrine that R. W. Emerson, paraphrasing the Katha-Upanishad, wrote that immortal verse of his: