...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. . . . What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided twentieth part of a shed...

...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with...

...its lurking opposite."25 He asserted, in some respects, the superiority of the life of the civilized American "with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket" to that of the primitive hunter of New Zealand.26 Yet Plato's philosophy and Plutarch's biographies...

..."between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American . . . and a naked New Zealander. . . . But compare the health of the two men, and you shall...white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveler tells us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite...

...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...compare the health of the two men and you shall see that his aboriginal strength, the white man has lost. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage...

...[ . . . ] Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.59 London's expedition was intended to give the lie to this supposition that the civilised,...

...only did he praise Knox's racist treatise. In his own earlier essay "Self-Reliance", Emerson wrote of "the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an 113 undivided twentieth of a shed", in contrast to the "well-clad" and literate New Englander with...

...assumptions, the narrator in On the Road shares Frazer's views: What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the travelers tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad axe, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite...

...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. . . . Wbat a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided twentieth part of a shed...