...analysis of Franklin's Remarks concerning the Savages of America. In his opening sentence, he observes, "Savages we call them, because their manners differ...Perfection of Civility: they think the same of theirs" (1905-7, 10:97). This observation is a close parallel to a comment he later made in his Maritime Observations...

...Concerning the Savages of North America, directed to a special audience, opens with an echo of Montaigne: "Savages we call them, because their manners differ...Perfection of Civility; they think the same of theirs" ( W969). That opening is entirely appropriate for Franklin's 1782 purposes and his abstract philosophical...

...PAST FEW CENTURIES were as understanding as Benjamin Franklin when he said of the Indians in 1784: "Savages we call them because their manners differ...perfection of civility, they think the same of theirs.... Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they esteem slavish and base; and the learning...

...merica in Benjamin Franklin, Writings from Poor Richard's Almanac (New York: Library of America, 1987): "Savages we call them, because their manners differ...from ours, which we think the Perfection of Civility" (969). 14. See Piero Del Negro, II mito americano nella Venezia del Settecento (Padua: Liviana, 1986),...

...the whole of the story. One late pamphlet entitled "Concerning the Savages of North America" begins: "Savages we call them, because their Manners differ...Perfection of Civility; they think the same of theirs" (W10:97). We frequently find him pointing to injustices done to them by Whites. On one occasion, for...

...from the first Franklin underscores, and upsets, the ways in which peoples organi2e national ideals: "Savages we call them, because their manners differ...Perfection of Civility; they think the same of theirs." By way of example, he recounts how, at the 1744 treaty of Lancaster, the representatives of Virginia...

...source of Bage's episode featuring the unsuccessful attempt by Hermsprong's mother to convert Lontac.] Savages we call them, because their manners differ...the same of theirs. Perhaps, if we could examine the manner of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude as to be without any...

...resolution, adaptation, and norm enforcement. In a bagatelle, Benjamin Franklin wrote the following: "Savages we call them because their manners differ...perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. The Indian men, when young, are hunters and warriors; when old, councilors; for all their government...

...Concerning the Savages of North America," written in 1783 while he lived in France. The paper begins, "Savages we call them, because their manners differ...Perfection of Civility; they think the same of theirs" (Franklin 1987, 469). The claim of cultural parity is not surprising given the development of Franklin's...

...for example, he opened his pamphlet Remarks concerning the Savages of North America, by affirming, "Savages we call them, because their Manners differ...Perfection of Civility. They think the same of theirs." He added, "Perhaps if we could examine the Manners of different Nations with Impartiality, we should...