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Trade is, as I have said, practically nil in Beïla, and the manufactures, which are trifling, are confined to oil, cotton, a rough kind of cloth, and coarse carpets; indeed, throughout the country, commerce is almost at a standstill. This is scarcely surprising when the semi-savage state of the people, and consequent risks to life and property, are taken into account.
Failing to see her, Major Flint sent for the bartender and clerk, and bade them say where these truculent, semi-savage bacchanals got their whiskey, and both men promptly and confidently declared it wasn't at the store.
For I hold one should leave one's body as it pleased the Almighty to make it, unblemished by semi-savage decorations which won't wash off." Faircloth moved away, drew his chair up nearer the head of the table, the corner between them, so that his hand could if desire prompted again find hers. "By the way, I'm so glad you don't wear ear-rings, Damaris," he said.
I rather suspect there were "tendernesses," but only such as a fine gentleman permits himself amongst semi-savage peoples something that seems to say, "Be as fond of me as you like, and it is a great privilege you enjoy; and I, on my side, will accord you such of my affections as I set no particular store by." Just as one throws small coin to a beggar. 'Oh, Mr. Atlee!
Too much stress has been laid on the spectacle of missionaries engaging in public controversies, and of semi-savage converts wrangling over rites and ceremonies and discussing points of theology which might well puzzle a Greek metaphysician. Such incidents were but an efflorescence on the surface of what for a number of years was a true and general earnestness.
And there could be no doubt, he added while the tones of his voice and the look upon his face showed how great he believed to be the risk involved in this line of policy that in now directing our course towards the mining town the deliberate purpose of the Council was to incite these semi-savage, wholly desperate miners to join forces with us in our rising against the Priest Captain's power.
Duke, the acting commissioner lately invalided, were sent abroad in all directions to act press-gang, and the natural lawlessness of the race came out strong. The force is injured by enlisting 'Haussas' who are not Haussa at all; merely semi-savage and half-pagan slaves. On detached duty they get quite out of hand; and they by no means serve to make our Government popular.
I now read Theodore Parker's "Discourse on Religion", Francis Newman's "Hebrew Monarchy", and other works, many of the essays of Miss Frances Power Cobbe and of other Theistic writers, and I no longer believed in the old dogmas and hated while I believed; I no longer doubted whether they were true or not; I shook them off, once for all, with all their pain, and horror, and darkness, and felt, with relief and joy inexpressible, that they were all but the dreams of ignorant and semi-savage minds, not the revelation of a God.
He could not but see that M'liss was revengeful, irreverent, and willful. But there was one better quality which pertained to her semi-savage disposition the faculty of physical fortitude and self-sacrifice, and another though not always an attribute of the noble savage truth. M'liss was both fearless and sincere perhaps in such a character the adjectives were synonymous.
"They belong to the semi-savage order of decoration. I hate them. You never will wear them? Promise me that." And she had promised, somewhat diverted by his tone of authority and of insistence. "But about this?" she asked him, indicating the blue and crimson symbol. "As I say, fruit of fear and superstition a pretty pair in which to put one's faith!
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