... the intensity of the indignation was in direct proportion to a White's distance from the Indian. On the frontier, the Indian was regarded as a besotted savage; but along the eastern seaboard, where the Spaniards, Dutch, English, and later Americans had long since exterminated all the Indians, philosophers and divines began to defend the Red Man.


Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)

Peter Farb Quotes

The intensity of the indignation was in direct proportion to a White's distance from the Indian. On the frontier, the Indian was regarded as a...

The intensity of the indignation was in direct proportion to a White's distance from the Indian. On the frontier, the Indian was regarded as a...

The intensity of the indignation was in direct proportion to a White's distance from the Indian. On the frontier, the Indian was regarded as a...

The intensity of the indignation was in direct proportion to a White's distance from the Indian. On the frontier, the Indian was regarded as a...