 What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 83by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Kenneth B. Kidd - 268 pages
..."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... | |
 | Andrew Delbanco - 2005 - 456 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...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... | |
 | David Farrier - 2007 - 290 pages
...[ . . . ] 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,... | |
 | Susan Petrilli - 2007 - 483 pages
...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... | |
 | 1934 - 712 pages
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