I use the word savages in the same context as Darwin did who erroneously thought black humans were closer to their animal ancestors than whites were. Of course I don't share Darwin's racist evolutionist views but I use his term to show how racist and evil evolution nonsense is.
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Josie Glausiusz
Savages and Cannibals: Revisiting Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle
"Viewing such men, one can hardly make one's self
believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants
of the same world."
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
But as I read the book a second time this spring, eighteen years later, I felt my own creeping sense of malaise. For some reason I had forgotten Darwin's encounters with indigenous peoples in South America, whom he describes, variously, as "wild," "savage," "cannibals" and "idle"; also "retard[ed] in their civilization," thanks to their "perfect equality among individuals." Even though the "civilized" Indians of the tribe of "the Cacique Lucanee" have a "lesser degree of ferocity," he notes, "it is "almost counterbalanced by their entire immorality."
