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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: have multiplied freely in the midst of their deserts without
coming in contact with other races more civilized than their own.
Accordingly, they exhibited none of those indistinct, incoherent
notions of right and wrong, none of that deep corruption of
manners, which is usually joined with ignorance and rudeness
among nations which, after advancing to civilization, have
relapsed into a state of barbarism. The Indian was indebted to
no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his prejudices
were his own work; he had grown up in the wild independence of
his nature.
If, in polished countries, the lowest of the people are rude
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