People :
Author : Henry Stephens Salt
: Seventy Years Among Savages
Text :
Are we, then, a civilized people? Has the Man of today, still living by bloodshed, still striving to grow rich at the expense of his neighbor, still using torture in punishment, still seeking sport in destruction, still waging fratricidal wars, and, while making a hell on earth, claiming for himself an eternal heaven hereafter—has this selfish, predatory being arrived at a state of “civilization”?
From : Chapter 17: The Talisman, Page 239..
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