"Now to return to my subject, I think there is nothing barbarous and savage in that nation, from what have been told, except that each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in. There is always the perfect religion, the perfect government, the perfect and accomplished manners in all things."
Work Cited
Puchner,
Martin. "Michel De Montaigne." The Norton Anthology: World Literature.
Shorter Third ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. 1653.
Print.https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm
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