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It's always interesting to read something written centuries ago, especially a foundational book for a genre.
By modern standards, this is really only worthy of being read by children/teens, though I think they'd get tired of the Christian theology. It's British Imperialist, in the worst sort of way - all good things come from the "civilized" world, and all people would jump at the chance of being slaves so that they could partake of Britain in some fashion. Ha. There's really no motivations and ...more
By modern standards, this is really only worthy of being read by children/teens, though I think they'd get tired of the Christian theology. It's British Imperialist, in the worst sort of way - all good things come from the "civilized" world, and all people would jump at the chance of being slaves so that they could partake of Britain in some fashion. Ha. There's really no motivations and ...more
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