The Moral Life of Barbarians
Geoffrey Hawthorn, 18 August 1983
The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology
by Anthony Pagden.
Cambridge, 256 pp., £24, September 1982,0 521 22202 8 Show More
by Anthony Pagden.
Cambridge, 256 pp., £24, September 1982,
“... most of the colonists, couldn’t see it, but to the ingenious theologians, anxious to serve their king and their Church, it seemed providential, precise and even practical. To Bartolomé de Las Casas, however, another Dominican, later Protector of the Indians and Bishop of Chiapa in Yucatan, the line was too fine. ‘False testimony, a contrived argument for ... ”