Christianity Suited to All Forms of Civilization: A Lecture, Delivered in Connection With the Christian Evidence Society, July 9th, 1872 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Bartle Frere

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0484154478 ISBN 13: 9780484154475

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from Christianity Suited to All Forms of Civilization: A Lecture, Delivered in Connection With the Christian Evidence Society, July 9th, 1872

I. Let us first consider the case Of wild tribes, who are, as nearly as we can judge, in what is called a state Of nature. We have whole families, and even races, in Europe in a condition very little removed from that Of the wild beasts but they are generally a degraded and neglected form Of mankind who have lapsed from a better state Of civilization, and are hardly such good subjects for illustrating our argu ment as the wild tribes Of India, who, so far as historical records show, have been from very early ages in a state at least as barbarous as that in which we have found them of late years. What I am now about to tell you applies to nearly one fifth Of the people Of India. Some Of them are not much removed above the condition Of the abo riginal tribes in Australia. In the Andaman Islands there are remnants Of a Negrillo race, who, though far better formed and well developed physically and mentally than the Australian race, have quite as little Of artificial. Civilization about them. In the jungles Of Central and Southern India are to be found tribes whose habits seem to approach much more nearly to those Of apes than Of _men. A few Of them are said to be absolutely without clothing, and to live habitually in trees; others have no better substitute for clothing than bunches'

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0484154478
• ISBN 13: 9780484154475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 55