 | National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Annual Session - Charities - 1892 - 528 pages
...remain a people unto themselves? It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like all the rest of us....a civilized language, life, and purpose. Transfer the infant white to the savage surroundings, he will grow to possess a savage language, superstition,... | |
 | National Conference on Social Welfare - Charities - 1892 - 518 pages
...remain a people unto themselves? It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like all the rest of us....a civilized language, life, and purpose. Transfer the infant white to the savage surroundings, he will grow to possess a savage language, superstition,... | |
 | Ronald Niezen - History - 2000 - 280 pages
...from innate racial inferiority: "It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like all the rest of us....to possess a civilized language, life, and purpose" (Prucha 1973, 268l. An author in a Canadian Anglican journal presented the widespread view that Indians... | |
 | Amelia V. Katanski - History - 2005 - 292 pages
...of Charities and Correction in 1892: It is a great mistake to think the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like all the rest of us....possess a savage language, superstition and life. . . . Transfer the savage-born infant to the surroundings of civilization, and he will grow to possess... | |
 | Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc - Social Science - 2006 - 289 pages
...mistake," Pratt wrote, "to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like the rest of us. Left in the surroundings of savagery,...possess a savage language, superstition, and life." 36 Thus, like Washington and Jefferson, Pratt believed in environmental determinism. It was the "primitive"... | |
 | Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc - Social Science - 2006 - 292 pages
...mistake," Pratt wrote, "to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like the rest of us. Left in the surroundings of savagery,...grows to possess a savage language, superstition, and life."36 Thus, like Washington and Jefferson, Pratt believed in environmental determinism. It was the... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 116 pages
...in him, and save the man. . . . It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like all the rest of us....possess a savage language, superstition, and life. . . . Transfer the savage-born infant to the surroundings of civilization, and he will grow to possess... | |
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It is a great mistake to think that the Indian is born an inevitable savage. He is born a blank, like all the rest of us. Left in the surroundings of savagery, he grows to possess a savage language, superstition, and life. 