By Professor Roy Harvey Pearce
First released in 1953, revised in 1964, and awarded right here with a brand new foreword by way of Arnold Krupat and new postscript by means of the writer, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a vintage within the style of historical past of principles. analyzing the political pamphlets, missionaries' experiences, anthropologists' money owed, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early nineteenth centuries, Professor Pearce strains the clash among the belief of the noble savage and the desire to Christianize the heathen and acceptable their land, which ended with the close to extermination of local American culure.
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H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters, among othersnonetheless, I can think only of Albert Keiser's 1933 study, The Indian in American Literature, as even vaguely approximating Pearce's concern with European-American thought about the Native American. "2 Pearce's study emerged from his graduate work at Johns Hopkins and his training in the method of intellectual history associated with Arthur O. " It was Lovejoy's belief that ideas, or idea complexes as he called them, could be separated out of texts and discourses and studied logically and analytically in historical context.
The colonial concern with the savage Indian was a product of the tradition of Anglo-French primitivistic thinkingan attempt to see the savage, the ignoble savage, as a European manqué. When, by the 1770's, the attempt had obviously failed, Americans were coming to understand the Indian as one radically different from their proper selves; they knew he was bound inextricably in a primitive past, a primitive society, and a primitive environment, to be destroyed by God, Nature, and Progress to make way for Civilized Man.
In America, from the very beginning the history of the savage is the history of the civilized. 2 The handful of adventurers who came to plant Virginia in 1607 were sure that they could live peacefully with the Indians; for they were sure that the Indians needed them and their civilization. , XIX, 231. , XIX, 232. 11 For a contemporary statement of this design, see A True and Sincere Declaration of the Purpose and Ends of the Plantation Begun in Virginia [1610] in Alexander Brown, The Genesis of the United States (Boston, 1840), 339-40.