Each man calls barbarism whatever


“I think there is nothing barbarous and savage in that nation . . . except that each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in.”

1.31 “Of cannibals” (p.185)


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