“If you love The Origin of the Species, embrace it! Call Australian Aborigines, Blacks and Indians what your father called them… SAVAGES!”
The Declaration of Independence calls Native Americans “merciless Indian savages.”
"He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
“The Declaration of Independence calls Native Americans “merciless Indian savages.”’
With one major, notable difference, slime. Most of the founders (if not all) understood it as a cultural thing not a state of being. And some of them were savage in nature. It may also be noted that the early immigrants to America did not consider all of them savages. By contrast, Darwin pointed to their savagery as a state of being and something that would eventually be conquered by the more civilized.
But who’s counting facts?