o a Silver, a Bronze, and an Iron with sin and disorder. Moreover, with the capitalism and colonialism, men lose almost all the virtues possessed. Oroonoko, the once black prince and a slave now, who abides by all the doctrines still is dismembered to death in the end.
Behn, in Oroonoko (1688), portrays a noble savage in chain. But the greatest impulse toward the doctrine of a natural nobility comes from Rousseau's Emile (1762). The idea later becomes a commonplace in the romantic period, as what we may perceive from Robert Burns' Poems, the spontaneous overflow of his native feelings and William Wordsworth's Michael. The idea also helps produce the idealized American Indian, as in Cooper's novels, and the idealized American life, as in Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer.
Another example is Leather-Stocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper in American Literature, the perfect woodsman, who dislikes the restraints and destructiveness of settlements, understands and loves the forest, and his moral qualities a
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