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Updated: June 7, 2025
We must now bid farewell to that land of savagism, so large a portion of which we have seen opened out to the view of the civilised world by the gallant and enterprising men whose footsteps we have traced. We would gladly have accompanied many others who have contributed their quota to our knowledge of the continent.
One cannot but be astonished at this mixture of "Japanism," savagism and eighteenth century taste, which constitutes inimitably the nude of Renoir.
We can not yet lay full claims to an enlightened Dress. Our female Dress is a half barbaric costume a rude mixture of ornament and utility, in which ornament greatly predominates. Our soldier's Dress, very appropriately, retains all the elements of savagism high colors, sharp contrasts, profuseness of ornament. This is as it should be.
Power applied to spoliation forms the groundwork of human savagism.
The amount of capital depends on the wealth of the community. As society advances, wealth increases; from savagism to civilization, from early civilization to the present time. This wealth, this capital comes from the reserved products of labor; "dried labor," it has been called, for labor is its only source of production.
Thus the spirit of the time is seen to waver between perversions and savagism, between what is unnatural and mere nature, between superstition and moral unbelief, and it is often nothing but the equilibrium of evils that sets bounds to it. Have I gone too far in this portraiture of our times? I do not anticipate this stricture, but rather another that I have proved too much by it.
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