John Gabriel Stedman Quote

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.


Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (ed. 1972)


To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are...

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are...

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are...

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are...