“Circumstances and environment have kept them to the pure stock, and neglect has left them untrammelled by civilization and unaided by education. Time and generations of ignorance have deteriorated them, and nature alone — as you were but now admitting — has hardly served to arrest the process by the survival of the fittest.”

“Nature — yes — how do you account for it? I have been in the grandest, most wonderful places, I venture to say, that are to be found on earth, and among all the glory that nature can throw around a man, he is still, if left to himself, more bestial than the beasts. He destroys and defaces and defiles nature; he kills — for the mere sake of killing — more than he needs; he enslaves himself to his appetites and passions, follows them wildly, yields