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...ion, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you would not guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a pala...

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...ce of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half... ...ng his javelin as he peers over the wall). Stand. Who goes there? They all start, listening. A strange voice replies from without. VOICE. The bearer o... ...). Now I know why the gods have taken her out of our hands. (The guardsmen start and look at one another). Know, thou foolish soldier, that the Queen ... ...mand is the price of our freedom. T ake it; and leave us to settle our own affairs. THE BOLDER COURTIERS (encouraged by Pothinus’s tone and Caesar’s q... ... The sentinel is so absorbed that he does not notice the approach from the north end of the quay of four Egyptian market porters carrying rolls of car... ...ldiers, with a centurion, come running along the edge of the quay from the north end. They rescue their comrade, and throw off Ftatateeta, who is sent... ...SECOND AUXILIARY (in a half whisper, glancing appre- hensively towards the north end of the quay). Can’t you wait a bit? APOLLODORUS. Patience, worthy... ...ey must not think I am opposed to a reasonable settlement of the country’s affairs— (They pass out of hearing.) CLEOPATRA (in a stifled whisper). Ftat... ...a CAESAR. (indulgently). I am busy now, my child, busy. When I return your affairs shall be settled. Farewell; and be good and patient. He goes, preoc...

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...m. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows....

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...of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing whatever. Six months ago I had never been to England... ...will perceive, therefore, that our friendship has been a young-middle-aged affair, since we were all of us of quite quiet dispositions, the Ashburnham... ...noon and watching the min- iature golf, you would have said that, as human affairs go, we were an extraordinarily safe castle. We were, if you will, o... ...rely the minuet—the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping it... ...he distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars. From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at... ...him right round the girdle of this mighty globe of ours. When they were at North Cape, even, he saw on the horizon, poor dear thin man that he was, a ... ...nd twenty took you straight down to the fountain. From the Englischer Hof, starting on the sidewalk, it was ninety-seven paces and the same four hundr... ... English would say, the Nonconformist temperament. In the United States of North America we call it the New England conscience. For, of course, that f... ...l find her young husband again, and Leonora will burn, clear and serene, a northern light and one of the archangels of God. And me… . Well, perhaps, t...

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................................................................. 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO II. Sunrise.?The Poets on the shore.?Coming of ...

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...nvocation to the Muses.—Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.—The Four Stars.—Cato.—The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ................. ...nvocation to the Muses.—Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.—The Four Stars.—Cato.—The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. TO RUN OVER BE... ... me to the right hand, and fixed my mind upon the other pole, and saw four stars never seen save by the first people. 4 The heavens appeared to rejoi... ...t people. 4 The heavens appeared to rejoice in their flamelets. O widowed northern region, since thou art deprived of beholding these! When I had wit... ...n hemisphere. Ac- cording to the geography of the time Asia and Africa lay north of the equator, so that even to their inhabitants these stars were in... ... A steeper inclination than that of an angle of forty-five degrees. 5 The North. 6 The brightness of the sun is the reflection of the Divine light. ... ... Dante’s irony is explained by the part which France had played in Italian affairs. 13 Of Anjou. 14 The youthful grandson of Frederick II., who, str...

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...fore us, we must re- mind our readers of another influence at work in this affair, and one acting, as we think, in the contrary direction. That pitifu... ..., and Knebel to instruct the younger. Upon this society Goethe rose like a star. From the mo- ment of his arrival he became the inseparable companion ... ...ghtfall, and was then rather taken upon trust than seen with the eyes. The affair was thus: in those old, unquiet times, when ev- ery one did wrong ac... ... times of peace or war, and especially on the days of election; and as the affair often came to blows when a train which was not to be endured in the ... ...eir inn at ten o’clock, followed by the deputies and their attendants, and stared at by all, natives and strangers, they enter the hall. The law pro- ... ...letely surrounded by floods and streams of water. 51 Goethe These events, startling as they were on the whole, did not greatly interrupt the course o... ...rects his march southwards towards the people of the Desert; then, wending north, he smites the Amalekites; and, when he has also overcome the Amorite... ... work, the most genuine production of the Seven Years’ War, and of perfect North-German nationality: it is the first theatrical production caught from... ...of their high-sound- ing pomp. “O Hendel, whose fame extends from south to north, hear the paean which ascends to thine ears! Thou bakest that which G...

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... con- versation between us at an earlier period of the evening; I mean the affair of the Rue Morgue, and the mystery attending the murder of Marie Rog... ...hat, either. The fact is, we have all been a good deal puzzled because the affair is so simple, and yet baffles us altogether.” “Perhaps it is the ver... ...ou in a few words; but, before I begin, let me caution you that this is an affair demanding the greatest se- crecy, and that I should most probably lo... ..., looking incredulously at my friend with open mouth, and eyes that seemed starting from their sockets; then, appar- ently recovering himself in some ... ...seized a pen, and 12 Poe in Five V olumes after several pauses and vacant stares, finally filled up and signed a check for fifty thousand francs, and... ... turned to stone. Some trees, now growing, are partly petrified. This is a star- tling fact for natural philosophers, and must cause them to modify th... ...led by the Norwegians Vurrgh. The one midway is Moskoe. That a mile to the northward is Ambaaren. Yonder are Islesen, Hotholm, Keildhelm, Suarven, and... ...to one hundred and fifty or perhaps two hundred. It was most narrow at its north- ern extremity, opening out as it tended southwardly, but with no ver... ...ich encompassed the vale could not fairly be called hills, unless at their northern face. Here a precipitous ledge of granite arose to a height of som...

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...d I turn’d, and fix’d my mind On the’ other pole attentive, where I saw Four stars ne’er seen before save by the ken Of our first parents. Heaven of t... ... by the ken Of our first parents. Heaven of their rays Seem’d joyous. O thou northern site, bereft Indeed, and widow’d, since of these depriv’d! ... ...at Poet sage how at the car of light Amaz’d I stood, where ‘twixt us and the north Its course it enter’d. Whence he thus to me: “Were Leda’s offspring... ... the sun and winter) for the cause Thou hast assign’d, from hence toward the north Departs, when those who in the Hebrew land Inhabit, see it tow’rds ... ...en thou should’st clasp her flanks with forked heels. Just judgment from the stars fall on thy blood! And be it strange and manifest to all! Such as m... ...insatiate eyes Meanwhile to heav’n had travel’d, even there Where the bright stars are slowest, as a wheel Nearest the axle; when my guide inquir’d: “... ...e successor of Albert was Henry of Luxembourg, by whose interposition in the affairs of Italy our Poet hoped to have been reinstated in his native cit...

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...getting in bed, and I was just about falling into a doze, when he suddenly started up, and swore with a terrible oath that he would not go to sleep fo... ...ull of water. This being done, we hoisted jib and mainsail, kept full, and started boldly out to sea. The wind, as I before said, blew freshly from th... ...made a long and heavy roll to windward, and Henderson, at the same moment, starting up in his seat bawled out to his crew to back water. He would say ... ...oxication, and felt himself sinking beneath its influence. CHAPTER 2 IN NO AFFAIRS OF MERE PREJUDICE, pro or con, do we deduce inferences with entire ... ... geon, he had devised this method of acquainting me with the true state of affairs. Trembling with eagerness, I now com- menced another search for my ... ...who were in it. This event happened, how- ever, in latitude 35 degrees 30' north, longitude 61 degrees 20' west, and consequently at no very great dis... ...dly possible to say what precise meaning intended by the phrase. The whole affair, however, proved the ultimate means of my relief, as will presently ... ... a gale of wind, which, indeed, shortly came on, with great fury, from the northward and westward. All was made as snug as possible, and we laid-to, a... ...abin, although it was now quite dark, and a gentle but long swell from the northward rendered the hulk somewhat un- steady. In the course of these att...

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...d, recited and parodied wherever the English language was spoken, the half-starved poet received $10! Less than a year later his brother poet, N. P . ... ... dead. He died in Baltimore on Sunday, October 7th. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was known, personally... ...on that in him literary art has lost one of its most brilliant but erratic stars. “His conversation was at times almost supramortal in its elo- quence... ...at this period of my ascension, was beautiful indeed. To the westward, the northward, and the southward, as far as I could see, lay a boundless sheet ... ...he entire Atlantic coasts of France and Spain, with a small portion of the northern part of the continent of Africa. Of individual edifices not a trac... ...n o’clock I found that I had very little to occupy my immediate attention. Affairs went swimmingly, and I believed the balloon to be going upward witb... ...a cluster of black specks, which undoubtedly were islands. Far away to the northward I perceived a thin, white, and exceedingly brilliant line, or str... ...prise produced in my mind by this ex- traordinary change in the posture of affairs was perhaps, after all, that part of the adventure least susceptibl... ...rk, not wishing to ruffle his temper; but I was much surprised at the turn affairs had taken; his ill humor puzzled me - and, as for the drawing of th...

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..., it enters Concord at the south part of the town, and after receiving the North or Assabeth River, which has its source a little farther to the north... ...ich has its source a little farther to the north and west, goes out at the northeast angle, and flowing between Bedford and Carlisle, and through Bill... ...w where the danger is, and get as good a freezing there as anywhere on the Northwest Coast. I never voyaged so far in all my life. You shall see men y... ...meadow health, To Time his length, T o the rocks strength, To the stars light, T o the weary night, To the busy day, T o the idle pl... ...ine ray Doth often shine on Concord’s twilight day. Like those first stars, whose silver beams on high, Shining more brightly as the day goes... ...or lore that’s deep must deeply studied be, As from deep wells men read star poetry. These stars are never paled, though out of sight, But li... ...another. Yet the New Testament treats of man and man’s so called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone... ...o the backbone Unto itself alone, And false to none; Born to its own affairs, Its own joys and own cares; By whom the work which God begun ... ...m, the old routine was pro ceeding still. There is, indeed, a tide in the affairs of men, as the poet says, and yet as things flow they circulate, an...

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...the Town. Tourists. Visitors. (The action takes place in small fjord town, Northern Nor- way.) The Lady from the Sea ACT I (SCENE.—DOCTOR WANGEL’S hou... ...child. Why, by Jove, I do believe it is he. Yes, it certainly is. Bolette (staring at him in quiet amazement). Yes; I al- most think— (ARNHOLM, in ele... ...you get them? Ellida. From the sculptor, Lyngstrand, my dear Hilde. Hilde (starts). From Lyngstrand? Bolette (uneasily). Has Lyngstrand been here agai... ...lf as he did? Ellida. He did not drown himself. He sailed in a ship to the north. Wangel (startled). How do you know? Ellida (with an effort). Well, W... ...llida. He did not drown himself. He sailed in a ship to the north. Wangel (startled). How do you know? Ellida (with an effort). Well, Wangel—it was th... ...s it to us that the great strange world comes hither for a time on its way North to see the midnight sun? We ourselves have no part in that; we see no... ...alking over serious matters. Bolette. Did you put in a word for me, and my affairs, too? Arnholm. No, dear Bolette, I couldn’t manage it. He was so co...

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...hings are And it cometh everywhere. I am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, Of Caesar’s hand, and Plato’s brain, Of Lord Chri... ... the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends o... ...is full of a sublime family likeness throughout her works, and delights in startling us with resemblances in the most unexpected quarters. I have seen... ...ganic being. In old Rome the public roads beginning at the Forum proceeded north, south, 23 Emerson east, west, to the centre of every province of th... ...nocence,—must always be formidable. He would utter opinions on all passing affairs, which being seen to be 29 Emerson not private but necessary, woul... ...pposite magnetism takes place at the other end. If the south attracts, the north repels. To empty here, you must condense there. An inevitable dualism... ..., serving; in your agent, good sense applied to ac- 63 Emerson counts and affairs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout yo... ...n some one. He is like a quincunx of trees, which counts five,—east, west, north, or south; or an initial, medial, and terminal acrostic. And why not?... ...he approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. I knew a m...

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... angry as I am that you did not come too; really Tibby is too tiresome, he starts a new mortal disease every month. How could he have got hay fever in... ...it was Charles Wilcox practising; they are keen on all games. Presently he started sneezing and had to stop. Then I hear more clicketing, and it is Mr... ...as, and how lucky to be on the spot when the disaster came! The train sped northward, under innumerable tun- nels. It was only an hour’s journey, but ... ...d through the South Welwyn Tunnel, saw light for a moment, and entered the North Welwyn Tunnel, of tragic fame. She traversed the immense viaduct, who... ...w of Tewin Water. She skirted the parks of politicians. At times the Great North 15 EM Forster Road accompanied her, more suggestive of infinity than... ...g for it but to go forward, though Mrs. Munt was too much agitated even to stare at the stranger. But remembering that there were two brothers, she ha... ...surprised that the rector allowed it.” “Perhaps it may not be the rector’s affair.” “Whose else could it be?” “The lord of the manor.” “Impossible.” “... ...hen serving on committees. They did not make the mistake of handling human affairs in the bulk, but disposed of them item by item, sharply. Caligraphy... ...d now be pleasant no longer. She returned to Wickham Place full of her own affairs—she had had another proposal—and Margaret, after a moment’s hesitat...

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... even if nature had made it inactive, was compelled to go forward to great affairs and deeds because of its neighbours, its geographic situation, the ... ...cydides of Little Russia.” How completely he disasso- ciated Ukrainia from Northern Russia may be judged by the conspectus of his lectures written in ... ...hty protection of Lithuanian princes, completely separated itself from the North. Every bond between them was broken; two kingdoms were established un... ...ries cut across, but made no real boundary line. Whether you looked to the north towards Russia, to the east towards the Tatars, to the south towards ... ...mmovably, and with open mouth, into her dazzling eyes. A knock at the door startled her. She ordered him to hide himself under the bed, and, as soon a... ...e tall, slender stems of the grass peeped light-blue, dark-blue, and lilac star-thistles; the yellow broom thrust up its pyramidal head; the parasol- ... ...rses and turning them out to graze. They lay down in their gaberdines. The stars of night gazed directly down upon them. They could hear the countless... ...but with pauses between, like an experienced man deeply learned in Cossack affairs, and carrying into execution, not for the first time, a wisely matu... ...her dropped: but the Lyakhs felt that the balls flew thickly, and that the affair was growing hot; and when they retreated to escape from the smoke an...

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...n. His full, black cloak, which was fastened on his head to a golden mitre starred with precious stones, and which hung all about him down to his hors... ...all following one another in regular succession formed long parabolas like star- rockets on the azure-coloured earth. The gloomy bushes ex- haled warm... ...orned with diamonds, and issued naked from her sleeveless tunic, which was starred with red flowers on a perfectly black ground. Between her ankles sh... ...itself by crucifying lions!” They were, besides, especially the men of the North, vaguely uneasy , troubled, and already sick. They tore their hands w... ...equalled those of the Barcas. No one had such experience in administrative affairs. He decreed the enrolment of all healthy citizens, he placed catapu... ...s in the west, and the Nomads come from the south, and the Romans from the north”—a cry of horror rose—”Oh! you will beat your breasts, and roll in th... ...cen- dants of the aboriginal families, and were usually indifferent to the affairs of their country. Out of gratitude for the plea- sure it had been g... ...ere burnt; the rest were thrown into the sea, and the waves, driven by the north wind, deposited them on the shore at the end of the gulf before the c... ...out angry and gesticulating. The war against Carthage was his own personal affair; he was indignant that 147 Flaubert the others should interfere in ...

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...iolet, laughing to think that her mother did not comprehend so very plain an affair, “this is our little snow sister whom we have just been mak ing!”... ... about her; and when driven into the corner, she positively glistened like a star! It was a frosty kind of bright ness, too, like that of an icicle i... ...t of her figure; and whereas just before she had resembled a bright, frosty, star gemmed evening, with a crimson gleam on the cold horizon, she now lo... ... of the west wind blew against the snow child, and again she sparkled like a star. “Snow!” repeated good Mr. Lindsey, drawing the reluctant guest over... ... stepping at once from Nova Zembla to the hottest part of India, or from the North “The Snow Image” Nathaniel Hawthorne 16 Pole into an oven. Oh, t... ... class of people to whom good Mr. Lindsey belongs it may seem but a childish affair, is, nevertheless, capable of being moralized in various methods, ... ...e mountainous accumulation of this one man’s wealth. The cold regions of the north, almost within the gloom and shadow of the Arctic Circle, sent him ... ...nsform himself into an angel of beneficence, and assume a control over human affairs as wide and benignant as the smile of the Great Stone Face. Full ...

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...n king of the Upplands, was aiming at the supreme kingship. He went into the North and fought many battles there, in The Saga of Grettir the Strong 3 ... ...o take them in, and they spent the winter there. In the spring Onund came to northern Agdir, having learned of the murder of Ondott. He met Signy and ... ...lsteinn’s house and gave him a severe wound. All the people who were present started up and attacked Asgrim. He defended himself vigorously and escape... ...ge with cross winds, mostly from the south, so that they drifted away to the north. They made Iceland right in the North, at Langanes, where they rega... ...to Kaldbak, where they told what had happened. People made great game of the affair and called him Thorgeir Bottleback, a name which stuck to him ever... ...the transfer was afterwards held to be valid. That was a much more important affair than this. My advice is that the land be divided in equal portions... ... knew all about him and knew that he was a man of wealth, able to manage his affairs, so the marriage was arranged. Asmund married Asdis, and became a... ...t about seeking for a time. Suddenly, when Grettir least expected it, Skeggi started running with all his might along the moor and picked up the sack.... ...gged off his shield and threw it down the cliff. Bjorn woke up, not a little startled, took to his heels and ran off home, narrowly escaping the bear’...

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... again—if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man—then you are ready for a walk. T o come down ... ...he afternoon over against one’s self whom you have known all the morning, to starve out a garrison to whom you are bound by such strong ties of sympat... ...rks are scarcely more obvious than woodchucks and their burrows. Man and his affairs, church and state and school, trade and commerce, and manufacture... ...art of them, says that “the species of large trees are much more numerous in North America than in Eu rope; in the United States there are more than ... ...lish traveler and a Governor Gen eral of Canada, tells us that “in both the northern and south ern hemispheres of the New World, Nature has not only... ... bluer, the air is fresher, the cold is intenser, the moon looks larger, the stars are brighter the thunder is louder, the lightning is vivider, the w... ...gers; but the traveler can lie down in the woods at night almost anywhere in North America without fear of wild beasts. These are encouraging testimon... ...oks larger also. If the heavens of America appear infinitely higher, and the stars brighter, I trust that these facts are symbolical of the height to ...

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...nd those natural endowments haply not the worst for two and fifty degrees of northern lati tude, so much must be derogated, as to count me not Areopa... ...and shorter than an Indian voyage, th ough it could be sailed either by the north of Cataio eastward, or of Canada westward, while our Spanish licens... ...an other; this is but an old canonical sleight of commuting our penance. To startle thus betimes at a mere unli censed pamphlet will after a while b... ..., to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adher... ...hed were such an obedient unanimity as this, what a fine conformity would it starch us all into! Doubt Areopagitica Milton 34 less a staunch and ... ...into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the sun, until the op...

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...ced that there was absolutely nobody in the district except me to help the starving. The people surrounding me were uneducated, unintellectual, callou... ...y making up my mind to give five thousand roubles to the assistance of the starving peasants. And that did not decrease, but only aggravated my uneasi... ...tting in the dining-room, drinking tea. “I want to organize relief for the starving peasants, and I don’t know how to set about it. So perhaps you wil... ....” Natalya Gavrilovna laughed, and began questioning him about his private affairs. Her presence gave me a pleasure such as I had not felt for a long ... ...were some who did, and how many people they ruined! Yes. . . Why, over the affair at the Klotchkovs’ tavern eleven men were sent to the disciplinary b... ...imovna was sitting. I had a feeling very much like that which I had on the North Sea during a storm when every one thought that our ship, which had no... ...h!” T o cut short her weeping and make an end of this agoniz- ing state of affairs, I ought to have gone up to my wife and comforted her, caressed her...

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...resent I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude my affairs so much on the no tice of my readers if very particular inquiries ... ...gro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that en slave both North and South. It is hard to have a South ern overseer; it is worse to h... ...and South. It is hard to have a South ern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself. T... ...revented some mis takes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and differen... ...story, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and informing as this would be. The greater part of what my nei... ... to prescribe rules to strong and valiant natures, who will mind their own affairs whether in heaven or hell, and perchance build more magnificently a... ...t, many of my townsmen have met me returning from this enterprise, farmers starting for Boston in the twilight, or woodchoppers going to their work. I... ...guinity ‘They’ are related to me, and what au thority they may have in an affair which affects me so nearly; and, finally, I am inclined to answer he... ...n the map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race ...