...conformable to what may be probably conjectured. Indeed, we have under our eyes tolerable proofs of it. Let a philosophic observer commence a journey from the savages...association living under no law but that of nature, subscribing and covering themselves with the flesh and skins of wild beasts. He would next find those...

...conformable to what may be probably conjectured. Indeed, we have under our eyes tolerable proofs of it. Let a philosophic observer commence a journey from the savages...association living under no law but that of nature, subscribing and covering themselves with the flesh and skins of wild beasts. He would next find those...

...conformable to what may be probably conjectured. Indeed, we have under our eyes tolerable proofs of it. Let a philosophic observer commence a journey from the savages of the Rocky Mountains, eastwardly to our seacoast. These he would observe in the earliest stages of association living under no law but...

...by touring the United States ethnographers could "relive" the essential stages of human evolution. Let the philosophic observer commence a journey from...subsisting and covering themselves with the flesh and skin of wild beasts. He would next find those on our frontiers, in the pastoral state, raising domestic...

...rights of man" (p. 491). 7' Letter to William Ludlow, 6 September 1824 (p. 1496): "These [savages] he would observe in the earliest stage of association living under no law but that of nature, subscribing and covering themselves with the flesh and skins of wild beasts." 74 Letter to John B....

...envisaged, could serve as illustration of the progress of the whole human species. Let the philosophical observer commence a journey from the savages of the...association, living under no law but that of nature. He would next find those on our frontiers in the pastoral state, raising domestic animals to supply...

...This he expressed in a striking comparison of geographical states with temporal ones. He wrote: Let a philosophic observer commence a journey from the savages...Mountains, eastwardly towards our seacoast. These [the savages] he would observe in the earliest stage of association living under no law but that of...

...vision of "civilization" moving across the American continent, imposing itself on "savages" who were "living under no law but that of nature, subsisting...themselves with the flesh and skins of wild beasts." In 1828 another American provided Washington's version of the mission civilatrice by proclaiming that...

...Aug. 31, 1824 Jefferson's response, at age 81, when asked to lead a crusade to abolish slavery.) Let a philosophic observer commence a journey from the savages...association living under no law but that of nature, subscribing and covering themselves with the flesh and skins of wild beasts. He would next find those...

...Ludlow on progress. In order to see proof of the progress of society, Jefferson recommends that "a philosophic observer commence a journey from the savages...Rocky Mountains, eastwardly towards our sea-coast." Along the Rocky Mountains, Jefferson continues, the philosopher "would observe [people] in the earliest...