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Updated: May 13, 2025
They are not thereby de-humanized; neither do the ideal types of imagination fail of humanization because they are thus fragmentarily, but consistently, presented. The type must make this human appeal under all circumstances.
The Equatorial Forest traversed by Stanley resembles that Darkest England of which I have to speak, alike in its vast extent both stretch, in Stanley's phrase, "as far as from Plymouth to Peterhead;" its monotonous darkness, its malaria and its gloom, its dwarfish de-humanized inhabitants, the slavery to which they are subjected, their privations and their misery.
Everything useful or portable, everything that spoke of man's occupation, everything that suggested life and comfort the porcelain tiles, woodwork, window-panes, roofings, mosaic or marble floors, leaden pipes all this had been carried away long ago. It stood there stark, dismantled, de-humanized, in the midday heat.
When there was no more corn, the people managed for a while to keep alive on roots and herbs; then, half-crazed by starvation, they fell to cannibalism. Gaunt, desperate, de-humanized, they crouched about the kettle that held their own dead. A Bible fed the flames, cast in by a poor wretch as he cried, "Alas! there is no God!"
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