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The poor Indians : British missionaries, Native Americans, and colonial sensibility /
Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of the cult of sensibility, when philosophers argued that humans were inherently good because they felt sorrow at the sign of suffering.
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Philadelphia [Pa.] :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2004.
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| Collection: | Early American studies.
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