![]() Kaori Nagai, the Kipling scholar, unearthed an 1852 pamphlet entitled "An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens", by William Henry Sleeman, a British officer in India. ![]() It coincided with a mid-Victorian fascination for tales of feral children. Man in his finest state, he believed, was almost identical to an ape his natural goodness was the goodness of an animal, before it has been "civilised" into duplicity and cruelty.ĭarwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) brought the relationship between men and apes into startling focus, by tracing an evolutionary shift from one into the other. Rousseau was credited with inventing the phrase "noble savage" (though it was actually Dryden's coinage) he believed that the human savage was "naturally" and "innately" compassionate about others, possessing empathy and disinclined to see others suffer. ![]()
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