These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves... with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in A...sia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in th...e islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is essential that none of the other great powers shall secure these islands [Hawaii]. Such a possession would not consist with ...our safety and with the peace of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a prodigious growth this English race, especially the American branch of it, is having! How soon will it subdue and occupy al...l the wild parts of this continent and of the islands adjacent. No prophecy, however seemingly extravagant, as to future achievements in this way [is] likely to equal the reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civil...izees. It is said to be compensation--a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, "You lose, I win": good philosophy for the winner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a k...indly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The voluptuous Indian, with every desire supplied, whom Providence has bountifully provided with all the sources of pure and natur...al enjoyment, and from whom are removed so many of the ills and pains of life--what has he to desire at the hands of Civilization? She may "cultivate his mind,"Mmay "elevate his thoughts,"Mthese I believe are the established phrases--but will he be the happier? Let the once smiling and populous Hawaiian islands, with their now diseased, starving, and dying natives, answer the question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm Crested the world; his voice was propertied... As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends; But when he meant to quail and shake the orb, He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, There was no winter in 't; an autumn it was That grew the more by reaping. His delights Were dolphinlike; they showed his back above The element they lived in. In his livery Walked crowns and crownets; realms and islands were As plates dropped from his pocket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »