orenthusiasm

Updated: May 10, 2025

Their phlegmatic, apathetic temperament, coldness of desire and deadness of feeling, want of curiosity and slowness of intellect, make the Amazonian Indians very uninteresting companions anywhere. Their imagination is of a dull, gloomy, quality and they seemed never to be stirred by the emotions love, pity, admiration, fear, wonder, joy, orenthusiasm. These are characteristics of the whole race.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons