A Lie Never Justifiable by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull
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truthfulness. They do not know how to tell a lie."[11] Indeed, as Mr.
Spencer sums up the case on this point, there are Hill Tribes in India "originally distinguished by their veracity, but who are rendered less veracious by contact with the whites. 'So rare is lying among these aboriginal races when unvitiated by the 'civilized,' that of those in Bengal, Hunter singles out the Tipperahs as 'the only Hill Tribe in which this vice is met with.'"[12] [Footnote 1: Glasfurd, cited in _Cycl. of Descrip. Sociol_., V., 32.] [Footnote 2: Forsyth, _Ibid_.] [Footnote 3: Macpherson, cited in _Ibid_.] [Footnote 4: _Ibid_.] [Footnote 5: Sherwill, cited in _Ibid_.] [Footnote 6: Harkness, cited in _Cycl. of Descrip. Sociol_., V., 31.] [Footnote 7: Spencer's _Principles of Sociology_, II., 234.] [Footnote 8: Marshman, cited in _Cycl. of Descrip. Sociol_., V., 31.] [Footnote 9: Wheeler, cited in _Ibid_.] [Footnote 10: Cited in _Ibid_.] [Footnote 11: Shortt, cited in _Ibid_.] |
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