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No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

John Gabriel Stedman
Race, People, Climate
John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America”, p.380, Рипол Классик

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

John Gabriel Stedman
Marriage, Country, Husband
John Gabriel Stedman (1796). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...”, p.28

To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.

John Gabriel Stedman
Self, Ideas, Feelings
John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana ... from the Year 1772 to 1777 ; Elucidating the History of that Country and Describing Its Productions, Viz. Quadrupeds, Birds, [etc.] Trees, Shrubs, [etc.] with an Account of the Indians and Negroes of Guinea”, p.196

A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.

John Gabriel Stedman
Ignorance, Errors, Civilization
John Gabriel Stedman (1813). “Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777:: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions, ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea”, p.396

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

John Gabriel Stedman
Art, Poetry, Excellence

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