"If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe."

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I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.

— Gustave de Beaumont