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Crooked timber

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made

~ Immanuel Kant


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CHAPTER 40

The Races of Man
In the Malay Archipelago

The higher classes of Malays are exceedingly polite, and have all the quiet ease and dignity of the best-bred Europeans. Yet this is compatible with reckless cruelty and contempt of human life, which is the dark side of their character. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that different persons give totally opposite account of them – one praising them for their operness, civility, and good nature; another abusing them for their deceit, treachery, and cruelty. The old GTraveller Nichole Conti en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_de%27_Conti writing in 1430, says: “The inhabitants of Java and Sumatra exceed every other people ion cruelty. They regard a man as a mere jest not in any punishment allotted for such a deed. If any one purchases a new sword, and wish to try it, he will thrust it into the breast of the first person he meets. The passers-by examine the wound, and praise the skill of the person who inflicted it, if he thrust in the weapon direct.” Yet Drake says of the south of Java: “The people (as are their kings) are a very loving, true, and just-dealing people; and Mr. Crawfurd says that the Javanese, whom he knew thoroughly, are “a peaceable, docile, sober, simple, and industrious people.” Barbosa, on the other hand, who saw them at Malacca about 1660 says; “they are a people of great ingenuity, very subtle in all the dealings; very malicious, great deceivers, seldom speaking the truth; prepared to do all manner of wickedness, and ready to sacrifice their lives.” ~ Page 447

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