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Every man calls barbarous anything he is not accustomed to.
[Chacun appelle barbarie, ce qui n’est pas de son usage.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 30 (1.30), “Of Cannibals [Des Cannibales]” (1578) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.31]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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A quotation from Hand, Learned:
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Cruel and savage as orthodoxies have always proved to be, the faithful seem able to convince themselves that the heretics, as they continue to crop up, get nothing worse than their due, and to rest with an easy conscience.
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https://wist.info/hand-learned/69746/#quote #quotes #quotation #cruelty #deserving #faith #faithful #heresy #heretics #heterodoxy #oppression #orthodoxy #persecution #savagery
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A quotation from Hand, Learned:
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Cruel and savage as orthodoxies have always proved to be, the faithful seem able to convince themselves that the heretics, as they continue to crop up, get nothing worse than their due, and to rest with an easy conscience.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hand-learned/69746/#quote #quotes #quotation #cruelty #deserving #faith #faithful #heresy #heretics #heterodoxy #oppression #orthodoxy #persecution #savagery
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A quotation from Hand, Learned:
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Cruel and savage as orthodoxies have always proved to be, the faithful seem able to convince themselves that the heretics, as they continue to crop up, get nothing worse than their due, and to rest with an easy conscience.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hand-learned/69746/#quote #quotes #quotation #cruelty #deserving #faith #faithful #heresy #heretics #heterodoxy #oppression #orthodoxy #persecution #savagery
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https://archive.org/details/exile2p
Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900 by Alice Bullard
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#Kanak, #Kanaky, #genocide, #france, #frenchrevolution, #pariscommune, #newcaledonia, #colonization, #indigenouspeoples, #antiblackness, #southpacific, #exile, #whitesupremacy, #Melanesia, #history, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #thirdrepublic, #communards, #colonizers, #war, #paris, #savagery, #penalcolony, #penalcolonies, #MelanesiansAccording to the poet Victor Hugo, the year 1870/71 was France's année terrible. The country suffered a humiliating defeat by the Prussian military, and Parisians endured a cruel siege. In the wake of the siege, Paris exploded and revolutionaries proclaimed the birth of the Paris Commune.
The conservative government of the young Third Republic portrayed the Communards as savage destroyers of civilization. The Communards were depicted as plagued by original sin, the evil nature of fallen man, and atavistic degeneration.