His result in this comparative study—not indeed covering all the phases of savage life—he made known in his Origin of Civilization and the Primitive Condition of Man.
Doubtless, however, the majority of them had had enough of the experiences of savage life to make a return to the settlements a welcome release.
Why then should this surface of savage life represent to us the lowest stratum of human life, the very beginnings of civilization, simply because we cannot dig beyond that surface?
When migrations were flights under the law of savage life, or movements in quest of better areas, such a stock would spread in wave after wave until it covered the larger part of the earth's surface.
Nearly the whole theory of savage life may be deduced from their institutions, usages and customs, inventions and discoveries.
Few persons who have observed the recent light thrown on the subject will question that the primitive condition of man was that of savage life, and fewer still will question that savage life is a state of war.
But it is certain that, where no such sense of constraint is felt, not only the notion, but even the reality, of savage life has a strong charm for many minds.
The indigites of this soil, in ferocity of appearance, exceeded all our previous idea of savage life.
Whether she condemns the usage of society that forbade her marriage, or blesses it because it saved her from a savage life, we know not.
The views of combats are very full of spirit, and exhibit modes of warfare and destruction horribly illustrative of savage life.
The imitative faculty thus manifested so generally among a people still in the condition of savage life, shows itself no less strikingly in the modern claystone carvings of objects of foreign introduction.
We find, not only in Canada but throughout the whole region northward from the Gulf of Mexico, diversified illustrations of savage life; but nearly all of them unaffected by traces of contact with earlier civilisation.
In the course of further conversation, Captain Bonneville drew from the Indian woman her whole story; which gave a picture of savage life, and of the drudgery and hardships to which an Indian wife is subject.
Such are the savage cruelties that white men learn to practise, who mingle in savage life; and such are the acts that lead to terrible recrimination on the part of the Indians.
Most of them had already experienced the wild freedom of savage life, and looked forward to a renewal of past scenes of adventure and exploit.
We see thus that the clan organization grows naturally out of the drawing together of men to strengthen themselves in the fierce struggle of savage life.
They give such an inside picture of savage life, with its nastiness, its alternate gluttony and starving, and its ferocity, as it would be hard to find elsewhere, drawn in such English as the wildest humorist would not dream of inventing.
They spent several months among them, on the friendliest terms, and they speak kindly of them, but do not disguise the brutality of savage life.
In reality, however, savage life is just as little a prolonged debauch as a prolonged idyll.
But they were at the same time more effeminate and voluptuous, and had less of the proud independence of savage life, having chiefs hereditary in the female line, to whom they paid considerable deference.
This circumstance leads us to notice, that the favourable aspect presented by the interior of these communities can by no means warrant any conclusion as to the superiority of savage life, when compared with civilized man.
Not all travellers are capable of accurate observation, and very many are led astray by what are really superficial aspects of savage life.
Witchcraft, as Tylor says, is part and parcel of savage life.
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