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The myth of the '''noble savage''' dates from the 1700s. The idea was that primitive natives, unspoiled by the vices of (typically [[European]]) settlers, were "better" than civilized men.  

The myth of the '''noble savage''' dates from the 1700s. The idea was that primitive natives, unspoiled by the vices of (typically [[European]]) settlers, were "better" than civilized men.  

"Pity for the vanishing [[Native American|Indian]], together with a sense of remorse, led to a revival of the 18th-century concept of the noble savage. America's native inhabitants were romanticized in historiography, art, and literature, notably by James Fenimore Cooper in his Leatherstocking Tales and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his long poem, The Song of Hiawatha." <ref>http://hnn.us/articles/7302.html</ref>

"Pity for the vanishing [[Native American|Indian]], together with a sense of remorse, led to a revival of the 18th-century concept of the noble savage. America's native inhabitants were romanticized in historiography, art, and literature, notably by James Fenimore Cooper in his Leatherstocking Tales and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his long poem, The Song of Hiawatha." <ref>http://hnn.us/articles/7302.html</ref> Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously extolled the virtues of man in a state of nature, writing at great length of the virtue and superiority of man in an uncivilized state.

 

 

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