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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Edmund Burke
America, People, Bones
Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.82
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.